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Word: supermanly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's school kids had an uneasy choice put up to them this week. Radio's No. 1 show devoted to what's good for children (and made as easy to listen to as radio knows how) moved in on Superman, Uncle Don, Dick Tracy, and Terry and the Pirates, who usually clang and bang up the air during radio's nightly children's hour (5-6 p.m., E.S.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: After-Hours School | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...Superman, who had left the war pretty much to itself since he could not cut in without winning it at once, plunged in after it was all over. An embarrassed McClure Syndicate last week was distributing strips in which a phony Japanese Superman was rising up to challenge (and be defeated by) the true Superman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cease Fire | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...Superman" Sydnor, spreader of much gossip, is maintaining a vigilant watch at his window near a local club Waiting for Winter...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 7/19/1945 | See Source »

...principal posted sentries at all the doors, called the police. A detective, six patrolmen, and a posse of teachers searched the whole building. All they found was splattered ink and taunts chalked on the walls. Once again the Phantom of P.S. 12 had dropped into the void of Superman and Captain Midnight from which he sprang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Phantom of the Schoolhouse | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Starting with such lofty themes as "American Traits and Attitudes," the professors are quickly reduced to explaining such U.S. oddities as Superman, the technique of dating girls, the mystifying myth of Horatio Alger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Britons at Princeton | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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