Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gave his boat four more feet of waterline than customary for a 40-footer, obeying a simple logic: a longer waterline tends to make a boat faster. He then hung an immense 700 sq. ft. of sail above, counterbalancing it with a deep three-ton fin keel, while keeping the boat's underbelly flat for speed off the wind. Instead of streamlining the rudder into the keel, he stuck a spade-shaped rudder well aft, which gives such strong leverage that a twelve-year-old child has handled a Cal-40 in 40-knot winds. The bold tinkering gives...
...Manolete used to place swords. The winner of last year's U.S. national championship at Forest Hills, he is a precisionist without a big serve, a tactician who learned his artful game on the relatively slow clay courts of Spain. He does pretty well on the faster grass...
...world of antimatter, all particles would be the exact mirror image of their material selves, except that their electrical charges and magnetic poles would be reversed. And it was this that the experiment at Brookhaven called into question. For if it had been done in an antimatter world, the faster positive pion would have been negatively charged. The theoretical symmetry of matter and antimatter would not hold...
...line that curved to the right, the negative peeling off to the left, and the neutral leaving no path at all. After analyzing photographs of 1,441 sets of such tracks, the Franzinis determined that in more than half of the cases the positively charged pion was therefore traveling faster than its negative counterpart...
...Marts," at a cost of $80 million, S. S. gave his approval without blinking a blue eye. The success of those stores is one rea son why the company's profits last year rose from $17 million to $22 million despite prodigious start-up expenses. It is growing faster than either Woolworth or third-ranking W. T. Grant, expects to increase its sales this year to $1 billion-or ten billion dimes...