Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marvelous conquest of space has made total war a household experience and, over vast reaches of the world, the commonest of childhood memories. The more abundance increases, the more resentment becomes the characteristic new look on 20th Century faces. The more production multiplies, the more scarcities become endemic. The faster science gains on disease (which, ultimately, seems always to elude it), the more the human race dies at the hands of living men. Men have never been so educated, but wisdom, even as an idea, has conspicuously vanished from the world...
Since war's end, John Haussermann had been busily scraping up money and shipping off equipment to rebuild the mining villages and mill plants wrecked by the Japanese. A trickle of gold was already coming from his mines. But bustling Mr. Haussermann thought it would come out faster if he was on the spot. Twice before, he had picked up the pieces of his Benguet Consolidated Mining Co., and fitted them together, until in 1941 they made a $100,000,000 empire...
...storms send "microseisms" ahead of them, he explained. These consist of very slight tremors which travel through the ground faster than a mile a second. Extra-sensitive seismographs can pick up these waves and calculate the position and direction of the storm...
Fans for the Holy Cross-Loyola University opener have brought up the Cross share of the ducats, and Arena officials are after grabbing the Crimson's quota to sell on the faster H.C. market...
...longer a race (his nearest foe was some 40 yds. in the rear), but a battle against the stop watch. Dodds passed the three-quarter mark in 3:03.9, just about what he'd planned. Then, instead of running down, 29-year-old Dodds began to go even faster. His time for the Wanamaker Mile-4:05.3-broke his own world's indoor mile record by more than a second. As usual, he took only part of the credit: "I always do my best trusting in the Lord. I feel as if He's with...