Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still show a slight percentage gain over population increase. But, says Churchman Morrison, "numerical growth is not the only criterion. . . . We must look also at the whole cultural, political, and economic scene within which Protestantism lives. Our question will then be: Is Protestantism growing in influence and spiritual power faster than these forces and interests external to itself...
...Secularism has been growing much faster in American culture than Protestantism. There are many factors which explain this growth. . . . The most obvious ones . . . are: 1) our secularized system of education; 2) our preoccupation with science; and 3) our organized and commercialized entertainment. . . . They represent vast concentrations of social preoccupation against whose tough grain Protestantism in our time has to make...
Last week Kindelberger proudly showed the public his new "plane. It looked so much like North American's P-51 fighter planes that one ex-Mustang pilot labeled it "The Colt." As Kindelberger had planned, the all-metal 185 h.p. Navion was faster (160 miles top) and carried more (four passengers plus baggage) than most light planes. But it was also expensive enough to take it out of the light-plane price class; the tag said...
These stages would be carefully scheduled. The U.S. would not give up its present monopoly of knowledge and equipment much faster than the rate at which other nations could develop their own atomic plants independently. The U.S. would not hand over another piece of knowledge or equipment until the Authority provided adequate security by mastering the previous stage of its job. If at any point the Authority broke down, the U.S. and other nations would be left with just about the same advantage (in stockpile of bombs, uranium plants, know-how, etc.) which they could expect to have...
Flying down to Rio, and everywhere in Latin America, was faster and more comfortable than ever. Mexico, prime goal of U.S. wartime travelers, was busier than ever-and higher priced than ever, like every place else. Bermuda was again only three hours from Manhattan by plane (round trip fare $126), or 72 hours by Furness Withey's 100-passenger ships (roundtrip fare: $80-200). The Monarch of Bermuda would not be sailing again till...