Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Bend, Mantz began to let down for his approach to the field at Cleveland. His nose (and a compass he hadn't bothered to have accurately calibrated) brought him in over the finish line first. His speed: 435.6 m.p.h., which was 153 m.p.h. faster than Frank Fuller's 1939 record, the last time the race was held. In second place: Old Hand Jacqueline Cochran Odlurn, Bendix champ in 1938, also flying...
...were inaccurate and out-of-date. Littlejohn promptly called in all WAA directors and representatives for a three-day what-is-wrong conference. Result was the tabulation of 120 problems the organization had inherited. The General gave his staff a month to correct them. And property began to move faster...
First stage will be vastly improved airplanes stemming from conventional designs. If the scientists are right, they will fly faster than sound, climb to the lower edge of the stratosphere, be bigger and longer-ranged than anything now known. Their functions: patrolling, old-fashioned atomic bombing, fighting their enemy opposite numbers...
...first in ankle-length gowns and long sleeves, yet no woman has ever done better than to beat the best men juniors. On the subject of male v. female in tennis, Pauline says: "It's ridiculous to compare them." Her reasons: a man anticipates the play better, runs faster, hits harder, lasts longer...
...cheers of the bards carried beyond the cool forest glade. With striking unanimity, the whole Welsh press snubbed the Princess by publishing not a line of her plea. The Welsh were convinced that a Government program to improve working conditions in the pits will get miners back to work faster than a pep talk from a princess...