Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ASDIC could hear the destroyer coming, coming, and he reported: "Destroyer closing, destroyer closing," and you knew sooner or later it would be over the top. Then you hear the sort of faint splash-splash of the propeller getting faster and faster. This is the most frightening time. You hear this thing going over and you wonder, "Has he dropped it now?" I forget how many depth charges were dropped, 40 or 50. I remember saying to myself: "This is hell, and I am not going to stay in submarines any more. I just can't take...
Since TIME began our West Coast subscribers have been getting the first copies off the press each week -rushed overland to them by the fastest trains. But since 1935 our circulation in booming California has been growing 50% faster than the average. Percentagewise we now have more readers there than has any other front-rank magazine. In fact, one out of every thirteen California families reads TIME each week-and it takes more than 130,000 copies for this one state alone...
...meet this transportation problem would have been to send our California copies to press early, leaving out some of the news-but we think we have solved it a better way. For from now on our California subscribers will get their copies of TIME faster-and they will go right on getting exactly the same news that goes into the TIME editions printed in Chicago and Philadelphia...
...Promised speedy production of penicillin by dehydrating it much faster than it has ever been done before...
...usefulness is that it makes it easier to change a solid or liquid into a gas. Under normal atmospheric pressure (760 mm.), the pressure of air molecules prevents or retards the evaporation of molecules from liquids or solids. Evaporation may be speeded by 1) heating, which makes molecules move faster (as in boiling water), or 2) reducing air pressure. Heating, however, may change the chemical make-up of a substance (e.g., heated food often loses vitamins, heated magnesium oxidizes). Industrially, the ideal method would be to evaporate a substance while it is frozen or relatively inactive...