Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Superman's activities alternate between the sublime and the petty. He will strain his immortal faculties to save the world (or the universe) from destruction one week, and the next series will find him messing around with a local gambling outfit or solving a murder that any ordinary homicide burean could handle. Strangely enough, these two kinds of adventures consume the same amount of time (two weeks); a fact which tends to confuse the pint-sized audience on the relative values of universe-saving as opposed to the detection of crime...
Odds on the freshman game run considerably higher than those for the varsity contest, as Poley Guyda's class of 1952 soccer team faces the MIT freshmen this afternoon at MIT. Traditionally the freshman Engineers have been an uncoordinated outfit and, by their past record, this year seems to be no exception. The Crimson has lost but once this season...
...months later he was back in Paris and playing wingback for an army team in the service football ranks. His outfit piled up an impressive seven and one record, and the local brass invited it to spend a month basking on the Riviera and playing football as the "home team" for Nice. McCabe could go down with the team, or use his points to get a discharge. He decided to go home to his family and the wife he had married early in 1944. Ben came home on Christmas...
...Straus inhabitant is the Office of the Special advisor to the President, a fund-raising outfit whose importance obviously gives it a strong claim on whatever facilities it needs. Originally settled in Massachusetts Hall, the Office has grown by leaps--and bounded into Straus early this fall...
...that the WAVES are a built-in, war & peace feature of the U.S. military establishment. The Navy approved for WAVE officers an all-out braid & fixings evening uniform. Designed by Main-bocher, it was intended to be "feminine and official at the same time." To the civilian eye, the outfit looked from the waist down like an 1890 Gibson girl; from the waist up, like a chorus girl in tails...