Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bronx scuttled a wild-eyed runt. The kid's tiny round head was ducked between high, skinny shoulders, his nose was bleeding, and he sobbed as he ran. After him pounded three bigger boys. One by one they gave up the chase; the runt ran too fast. He ran until he was out of sight. He is running still...
Year after year, Gordon Richards was a big winner, earning up to $120,000 a season. He got extra speed out of a horse by breaking fast from the post and being a master horse-handler all the way to the finish line. Unlike U.S. jockeys, who perch crablike on a horse's withers. Richards sits his horse with longer stirrups. When he uses the whip, which is seldom, he lays it on the horse near the shoulder, as English riders do. Last week, at 43, he won his 3,261st race, and that made him officially the world...
Only a small part of a plane's noise comes from the engine exhaust. Up to 95% comes from the propeller, whose fast-moving tips stir up racketing sound waves. To eliminate the waves, NACA designed a five-bladed prop, which looks like a five-petaled flower. It gives plenty of push when driven (through reduction gears) at a comparatively slow 1,000 r.p.m. The broad, leisurely blades do their work in near silence...
...Navions were made, only 841 sold. But Dutch Kindelberger feels that Navion production kept his staff together till North American could acquire a backlog of $177 million in military contracts, enough to keep the company virtually intact. But Kindelberger did not get off the griddle fast enough to avoid a serious burn. On the Navion, North American lost around...
...Will not the jump in size which must accompany extension of the Program to the entire body of Freshmen and Sophomores rob the courses of the top quality they have boasted this year! Despite the fact that the number of sections might increase and the intimate scale thus hold fast, the present practice of professors meeting in person with section groups would necessarily come...