Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proudest Navy Day, the world's most colossal Navy last week told some colossal facts about its most colossal ships: the 45,000-ton Iowa and her sister battleships are the mightiest and fastest in the world, bigger by 5,000 tons than Britain's Lion, faster than Germany's 42,000-ton Tirpitz...
...women, says Scheinfeld, is largely biological. The more scientists study the question, the more fundamental differences they find between men & women. Girl babies are generally born five to nine days sooner than boys; they teethe and talk earlier; their bones harden sooner; they have fewer red corpuscles and a faster pulse; they are more emotional (more active thyroid glands); they mature more rapidly. A girl sleeps more than a boy, needs less food, has a lower metabolism rate, is warmer in winter (because of better insulation) and cooler in summer...
...Domineering Sex. Though more vulnerable, the male surpasses the female in every test of physical capacity except those requiring fine, coordinated movements (e.g., sewing, buttoning, dressing, etc.). No woman has ever equaled men's records in any athletic activity. Even in horse racing, stallions are faster: only one mare has won the Derby (Regret, 1915)-and she had a big weight advantage...
Sometimes nerves, like pollarded willows or clipped adenoids, will spread and grow after pruning. The growth rate may be an eighth of an inch a day, or even faster. This fact has been the basis of infantile-paralysis treatments by Lieut. Commander Harvey Ellsworth Billig, Jr. and Physiologist Anthonie Van Harreveld of the California Institute of Technology...
...years Government officials have lectured the railroads on the subject of debt, have rarely missed a chance to prod them toward faster bond retirement. Last week came the long-suffering railroads' turn. In a tax-plan letter to Congressman Daniel A. Reed (R., N.Y.), the Association of American Railroads politely proposed that Government retire 1% of its debt per year. In this way, suggested the association-whose members have cut their debt $1.4 billion in four years-the expected $300 billion postwar debt can be liquidated in 100 years...