Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans Are Faster. Neither in Jerusalem, nor London, nor Washington nor Lake Success was there any sign last week of solid planning toward a set-up in Palestine that would prevent...
...train of such waves, Dr. Deacon looks on the weather map to check on where they are coming from. Usually their origin is a storm far out toward North America. The wind may never reach England, but the long, low swells, sweeping along at 70 miles an hour, much faster than ordinary ocean waves, do not stop until they hit a shoreline. Dr. Deacon has measured waves at Pendeen which came all the way from a storm off Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America...
Last week Western Europe was astir. It was moving farther and faster toward the union which was its best chance for survival than anyone would have thought possible a few years, or even a few weeks, ago. Old notions of sovereignty were sloughed off, old jealousies pushed aside...
...differ. Drs. P. C. Zamecnik, I. D. Frantz Jr., and R. B. Loftfield tagged a protein-building amino acid called l-alzmine with the isotope, watched what cancer tissue and normal liver tissue did with it in test tubes. They found that cancerous livers absorbed the amino acid much faster than normal livers. Eventually, their experiments might help explain why cancer cells grow disastrously faster than normal cells...
World War III would come a lot closer if world Communism grew in power to the point where it felt able to attack the U.S. Since World War II ended, Communism's power had grown faster than any rise in Hitler's power between 1933 and 1939. The Communists were not the X in the equation. Their intention to rule the world had been proclaimed a thousand times, and their strength under various circumstances could be fairly accurately forecast. The unknown quantity was the Western world. How seriously would the West try to resist the Communist expansion...