Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army is very much interested in science these days. Its latest interest is cosmic rays. One reason: the rocket weapons of World War III may shoot through empty space above the atmosphere, where cosmic rays are loose. Another: cosmic rays may some day supply the key to a "super" atomic bomb, which will make the plutonium efforts look like firecrackers...
Plato Was a Piker. Modern Atlanteans go far beyond Plato, peopling their imaginary lands with super-cultured inhabitants. Greatest extender of the Atlantis myth: Author James Churchward, who invented the "lost continent of Mu" in the Pacific. Its inhabitants, the originators of civilization, colonized Atlantis 20,000 years ago. Their ships entered the "Amazon Sea" through a canal cut through the Andes Mountains, then in the puppy stage. Other Muvian colonies: Egypt, Greece, the Mayans...
...gyroscope devices. They are pre-set on the ground; after the rocket has taken off, it cannot be deflected to a new course, or its aim corrected. All its nursemaids can do is cut off the power by radio. Last week they let it blast away for 59.4 seconds. Super-Vergeltungswaflen of the future, Army experts hoped, would be better trained...
Last week Washington atomic insiders let a little information leak out. A really "super" bomb existed only in the minds and notebooks of atomic idealists. It was theoretically possible, but exceedingly difficult to construct. The best the bomb-fanciers could do for the present, they thought, would be to step up the destructive power of the Nagasaki-type (Model-T) bomb about one hundred times...
...objections to world government, that the people are not ready for such a step, drew Van Doren's answer: "Why not ask them? They've never been asked about it before." He also believed that the responsibility of the people would eliminate the danger of tryanny in the proposed super government...