Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made the biggest splash of all. Keeping his stroke long and easy (extra effort generates power but not speed, like an automobile in second), Ford couldn't help feeling that he was loafing. Three official A.A.U. watches contradicted him : he had traveled 100 yards in 49.4 seconds, faster than any human ever swam before. It shattered Johnny Weissmuller's 17-year-old (20-yd. pool) record by four-tenths of a second...
...married woman with two children and I believe I am still young and good looking. . . . I have gone to parties whenever I could just to make the time go faster. And more often than not the evening fits this pattern...
...began Jan. 1). ¶ The Germans' December breakthrough had revitalized complacent workers. ¶ The emergency furlough of 600 soldiers to fill in gaps in the tire plants over a month ago seemed to have touched civilian workers' pride. The presence of uniforms made them work harder and faster than ever before. (Another 900 soldiers were proving equally successful production boosters in other rubber plants...
...problems in jet-plane design are 1) its high fuel consumption, 2) its approach to supersonic (i.e., faster than sound) speeds. (The Navy announced last week that it was building a 750-m:.p.h. wind tunnel to test jet planes.) At high speeds, the jet engine is more efficient than a conventional engine; it uses little more fuel at 500 m.p.h. than at 400. But because the jet engine usually must operate at maximum capacity from the start, it has been relatively inefficient at low speeds. Moreover, to cut air resistance, the P-59 has extremely thin wings which have...
...done more than their usual best to clear the tracks. But main-line trains slowed to a crawl: the crack Twentieth Century Limited was ten and a half hours late on one scheduled run of 17 hours from Chicago to New York City. Freight was delayed and congestion grew faster than it could be relieved...