Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sound of German machine-gun fire thickened, Bowland fired faster. A frantic voice came into our walkie-talkie, saying the shells from our mortars were dropping...
...well-dressed ship-abandoner should leave without a life jacket. Chambliss prefers the inflatable type to kapok. Worn on the person, the rubber jacket is always available and may be deflated for faster swimming...
...Pergolesi, by contrast retained only the form and melody of the original, progressively adding more and more idiom to each of the eight dances. There was, however, within the movements, considerable alternation between the two styles, the softer and slower passages being nearly pure Porgolesi, the louder and faster passages principally Stravinsky. There were the typical Stravinsky cross-rhythms, two against three, throbbing dissonances in the trombone and basses, mechanically repeated figures for pizzicato strings, and, at the end, circus-style trombone "smears" for satirical effect...
...engineers are already eying the huge air-cooled motor for an added 300-400 h.p., to get both faster climb and top speeds not far below 500 m.p.h. If that happens, says one British expert on both planes and understatement, the result will be "quite startling...
...have yet to report the Thunderbolt in action. It is not as good at dog-fighting as the Spitfire IX, its range is limited, its rate of climb is slow. But engineers are already eying the huge air-cooled motor for an added 300- 400 h.p., to get both faster climb and top speeds not far below 500 m.p.h. If that happens, says one British expert on both planes and understatement, the result will be "quite startling...