Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disturbances at the muzzle of a gun at the moment of firing (see cut). The knots near the muzzle are the hot, expanding gases expelled from the barrel. The long, dark, curved line ahead of them is the "shock wave" of compressed air created when an object travels faster than sound (the smaller curved line at the top of the picture is a shock wave caroming off a metal plate). This phenomenon, which airmen know as "compressibility," has thus far prevented airplanes from flying faster than sound (TIME, July...
...only one of Cordell Hull's top subordinates left in his job was able Assistant Secretary Dean Acheson, who continues in charge of the Department's liaison with Congress, and who has always worked at a faster pace than his older colleagues...
...suggested the end of a war, or even the end of a campaign. But in the eye of his keen, analytical mind General Bradley could see beyond the belching, jerking guns, the wallowing tanks, the struggling infantrymen. The armies on the south flank of the Allied line were moving faster than he, because they were exploiting a weakness which already existed. Bradley was busy creating a weakness-one which may be fatal to Germany...
...sudden activity at Gopher was multiplied at countless other war plants. There were several reasons for this. Principal one was that the U.S. war machine was chewing up its equipment faster than it was being produced. Instances...
...Reports from Sweden were that it has a range of 250 to 300 miles, and that its maximum velocity is around 4,000 miles per hour. Near the end of its steep fall, atmospheric resistance slows it down to 1,000 m.p.h. or less, but since that is still faster than the speed of sound, it gives no audible warning. The whoosh of its passage is heard after the explosion. It digs a crater 30 ft. wide by 30 ft. deep...