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Word: superselect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alongside the plane was a tent in which Manhattan District engineers had assembled "The Thing." A mobile crane had hoisted it from the tent to a trench beneath the plane's open bomb bay. Hidden by canvas from all but a superselect few, The Thing was drawn up into the bay. All that could be told about it was that it was big enough to have a foot-high picture of Cinemactress Rita Hayworth pasted on its side. The Thing was called Gilda (after Miss Hayworth's latest movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Test for Mankind | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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