Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week formal glories crowned her behind-scenes power. Opportunist George Tatarescu, who could turn his coat faster than Houdini, had outlived his usefulness to the Communists as Foreign Minister. The Communists kicked him out. On the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, on the eve of St. Michael's Day (his own "name" day), King Michael named Ana Pauker, who was not even one of his subjects, to be his Foreign Minister...
...firing tests, its six new .50 caliber M-3 guns pumped out lead 50% faster than the standard M-2 guns of World War II. The problem of firing high-powered machine-guns at near-sonic speeds had been licked...
...system's chief working parts (as applied to a railroad car's wheels) are a pendulum, a set of floating weights, hydraulic cylinders and motor-driven screw-jacks. Functioning faster than a human brain, the mechanism goes into action the instant the car wheels hit a bump in the track or begin to rock from side to side. By adjusting the wheels to compensate (in three thousandths of a second), the shock absorber keeps the car itself on an even keel. It also tilts the car automatically to a comfortable angle as it rounds a curve...
...Hanna's invention, which is adaptable to buses, is now being tested by one of the big railroads. Westinghouse also claims that the device will enable trains to travel 25% faster on curves...
...Soph touch gridders tramped the '51s 12 to 0, but the yearling softballers won 5 to 1. Sophomores ran faster and tugged a rope harder and pulled into the lead as the afternoon pounded ruggedly...