Word: supermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drill Does It. A.V.G. pilots were not rakehell supermen who needed no discipline and could worry along with second-rate planes. They were-and are-super-pilots. Every man among them got a postgraduate education from the onetime schoolmaster from Waterproof, La. who left the Air Corps in 1937 with the conviction that only war would prove his combat theories...
...meet: the 66th annual outdoor Intercollegiate A.A.A.A. championships. The athletes: Penn State's Sprinter Barney Ewell, New York University's Miler Leslie MacMitchell, Georgetown's Shot Putter Al Blozis. With customary prowess, each of these supermen dominated his particular field...
...Delhi, he expounded a salty preface. Said Uncle Joe: "I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it. ... The Japanese are not supermen. If we go back properly proportioned and properly equipped we can throw them...
Concerning upperclassmen, Bingham announced that the aim of his department was to provide a good physical workout four times a week. "I do not have in mind producing a group of supermen between now and June," he said, "I want to make the transition between peace-time leisure and wartime obligation a gradual...
What Johnny Johnson wants to bring home to U.S. youth today is that it takes no supermen to fill these jobs. For flying officers the physical examination is tough, but it takes no crack athlete to pass it. The educational requirement, two years of college, can be met by passing a written examination, and last week the Air Corps eased up on its requirements. As if he hadn't troubles enough already, last week Johnny Johnson got another problem to chew. Announced by bald Assistant Secretary of War for Air Bob Lovett was a program for training...