Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chafee is also listening to the noise an electric wire makes when it is heated. The hot molecules vibrate faster and make strange sounds over radios...
...Department of Engineering Sciences has three more projects. Professor Frederick V. Hunt is studying sound in his anechoic chamber, whose walls sponge up over 99 percent of every noise. Professor Howard H. Aiken is building his fourth super-brain calculating machine, faster and smarter than before. Professor Howard W. Emmons is working in mechanics...
...knew of no faster way of producing communists than by making martyrs out of the handful of communists we now have. Forbidding them to speak . . . would be accepting communist practices in the name of Americanism. Whatever may have happened elsewhere, Harvard still believes in freedom and the American...
Since a flying hockey puck travels a good deal faster than the human body, a topflight goalie needs the knack of being in the right place at the right time. It also helps to have perfect balance, knowledge of the tactics of the opponent streaking down-ice toward the net and a thoughtfully padded uniform. In the National Hockey League, the man who seemed to combine the necessary qualities better than anybody else this season was Toronto-born William Ronald ("Big Bill") Durnan, 34-year-old veteran of the Montreal Canadiens...
...McInnis has been using Ernie Mannino, with Mort Dunn at shortstop. Mannino played shortstop under Samborski until he was hurt; Dunn started the 1948 season with the varsity, was demoted to the jayvees, and then moved up to the varsity again at the end of the schedule. He is faster and can cover more ground at shortstop than Mannino, although the latter is the better fielder...