Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feeder which pushes coal in at one end and ashes out at the other, a water jacket, a small pump which circulates the heated water rapidly to radiators. (The unit can also be adapted to hot air or steam.) In its tiny fire bed, coal burns much faster than in" previous furnaces, but so efficiently that the burner produces 40% more heat per unit of coal...
...Normandy, where the announcement of the murders was posted for all Canadian troops to see, Lieut. General H. D. G. Crerar cautioned his men against retaliation in kind. "Instead," said he, "Canadian anger must be converted into a steel-hard determination to ... hit harder, to advance faster...
There were never more than a hundred grizzled oldsters eventually discovered. The youngest were in their 60s. The oldest was 84." These 19th-Century survivors were building 20th-century destroyers. But the novice shipbuilders, said the executives, were better than the shipbuilders of World War I. They learned faster, behaved bet ter, dressed better...
Russian-born Harvard Professor Boris Sidis had always said that if you strongly encouraged a child's intellectual curiosity he would learn faster than a jack rabbit runs. Mother Sidis, also Russian-born, was a physician,† A specialist in abnormal psychology, proud Father Sidis filled scientific journals with articles about his prodigious son, wrote a book (Philistine and Genius) urging other parents to adopt his own methods of intellectual forced feeding. "To delay is a mistake and wrong to the child," he declared. "We can at that early period awaken a love of knowledge which will persist through...
...Liberties are still being finished at East Coast yards. But no more keels will be laid, East or West. Already Richmond No. 2, and most of the other yards, are building the faster Victory ship (15 knots) and a shoal of Navy craft, C-4 troop transports, LSTs, frigates. But the feverish shipbuilding in which Richmond No. 2 built a Liberty in seven days is ended...