Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved faster, reminded of his mission by the stream of nine o'clock scholars that was passing him. "Who ever thought I'd see so many balding heads above the upturned collars?" He went on talking to himself, as he always did when he walked in the rain. "Funny how the perspective on this place changes. Once it was overwhelming--so much to be done, so many guys who looked and talked as though they knew it all. Almost enough to make a guy want to throw up his hands." Now he had an idea that he knew...
...field, the game was faster, more rugged than ever (see SPORT). The fans had something to see. In Yale's Bowl, filled (except for a few seats) for the first time since 1937, about 65,000 sat through drizzle and downpour and gave their loudest, longest cheers to a Negro fullback. At South Bend, 55,452 swarmed over the town-including many loyal Notre Dame buffs who had never got beyond high school but would travel hundreds of miles to see "their team." Said one from Massachusetts: "Looks like the old days, only more...
...efficiency even beyond the considerable gains made since the opening of the term. According to the Crimson survey, the lines slow down at a number of points, chief among these being at the coffee and milk section of the counter. More help to keep the coffee and milk pouring faster is the answer here. Other pauses in the usually fast-moving lines occur when students have to help themselves to items such as butter and when refills of food trays don't arrive promptly from the kitchen...
...installation of these teletypes-especially radio teletypes-around the world is of great significance to the U.S. press, or to anyone interested in faster, more direct overseas communications. For one thing, these machines do away with several time-consuming operations, such as having to transcribe messages from Morse code into words. They also promise a solution to one of the most stubborn bottlenecks in overseas communication: the job of getting the message from the office of the communications company in, say, Bombay, to TIME'S Bombay office. In most cases delivery is now in the hands of local officials...
Speed makes the difference-a higher order of speed. Many military planes can plunge in a power dive, faster & faster until the needle of the airspeed indicator creeps close to the dread red mark of "compressibility." At this critical speed, the airstream, accelerated by crowding over the curved surfaces, reaches at certain spots the speed of sound.† Then a standing sound wave may form on the wing or tail, roaring and hammering, perhaps chewing holes in the plane's skin or freezing the controls...