Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This worked out to an average ground speed of 607.2 miles an hour-23 miles an hour faster than the transcontinental record set three years ago by an F-80 jet fighter...
...their engines throttled down to a throaty chuckle. Among the trees a car waited, ready to whisk the refugees northward through Miami. The smugglers' boats are mostly goletas-small, dirty fishing smacks and schooners used in the coconut and banana trade. Often, the goleta will rendezvous with a faster U.S. boat for the run to the Florida coast. Masters of bigger boats prefer to land their cargoes further up the coast, as far north as Norfolk, to elude the border patrol. Lately, light planes had entered the traffic, flown by ex-service pilots...
Dartmouth's wild and wooly Winter Carnival, where the girls run faster and the wine flows like wine, is back again this weekend. The fraternities have dusted off their bartenders, the parietal rules have turned their backs in shame, and every hotel, rooming house, and bordello within 10 miles hasn't an empty bed left. Oddly enough, this is big news in skiing...
...Arish district, now in Egypt, which last month the Israeli army belatedly and briefly occupied. The Zionists had refused. It was up to Weizmann to explain why only Palestine would do. He started talking in 1906, when he first met Balfour; he was still talking (harder & faster) in 1916, when he was made director of the Admiralty Laboratories and invented a new means of producing acetone for explosives which kept the British guns in action...
...year). Neither apologetic nor apoplectic, Witness Coyle pointed out that G.M.'s prices had not been out of line, that there had also been "profits for the customer." He asked the Senators to step outside. There, he had parked a 1929 Buick and a 1948 Chevrolet. The Chevvy, faster, more powerful and a bigger & better car, actually sold for fewer dollars than the Buick...