Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imparting this kind of general education, Conant says, schoolteachers must keep an eye out for "gifted" boys & girls. Conant thinks that students with special aptitudes for mathematics and languages can be spotted in high school, almost as early as those with musical talent-and encouraged to walk a little faster than their neighbors...
...service the most. Airline oldtimers scoffed. There was not enough traffic in the small burgs, they said. Besides, on short hauls (Southwest's shortest hop is 22 miles, its longest only 115) planes would waste so much time on the ground that they would not be much faster than trains or buses. Southwest sped up its ground operations until now a DC-3 can discharge passengers, load new ones, and take off again only 90 seconds after it taxis to a stop (six extra minutes if it has to refuel). Southwest has trimmed the time by such tricks...
...Winthrop squeeze over Leverett, the Deacons overcame uncooperative officialling and 65 yards of penalties to keep their small margin. The two lines were equal charge for charge, but the Bunny running attack, split between the "T" and the single wing, was no competition for the faster Puritans...
...first brisk winds of fall have brought the chilling news to student car-owners that local police are evidently resolved to crack down on all-night parking in city streets. Armed with a spanking new ordinance, officers are ready to haul away offending vehicles faster than Henry Kaiser can turn them out at Willow...
...vision in many directions, but they also admitted more glare. Short drivers had difficulty in seeing over the hood. Slanting rear windows looked pretty but they collected snow in winter. Almost all the new cars were bigger or more powerful than their earlier prototypes; they rode easier, had a faster pickup and greater speed. Compared to prewar models they looked like custom-built guided missiles. What was worrying their owners was the job of keeping them that...