Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real question seemed to be whether hurrying Hubert Humphrey would fail to get where he wanted (wherever that was) because he had tried to get there too fast. A man who has an answer for almost everything, Hubert Humphrey also had an answer for that: "I still have an interest in the drugstore." But, he added: "It's going to take a real good man six years from now to make me move out of here...
...Israeli military campaign had been a brilliant, hard-won success, highlighted by a fast three-day invasion of Egypt. Driving down the Egyptian right flank (after a feint at Gaza on the coast), the Israeli forces plunged headlong into Egypt and fought their way to El Arish, over 50 miles behind the frontier...
Twenty-five years ago, at the University of Toronto, three history lecturers became fast friends. Two, Lester Bowles Pearson and Hume Wrong, went into Canada's foreign service; George Parkin de Twene-brokes Glazebrook stayed on as a history professor. During the war, Mike Pearson drafted Glazebrook to help him in the Department of External Affairs. Last week Glazebrook was drafted again, to direct Canada's Joint Intelligence Bureau...
...more accurately described as a winged, piloted rocket. It carries four tons of fuel (alcohol and liquid oxygen) and burns it all in 2½ minutes of full-power flight. With its heavy construction, straight wings and negligible payload, the X-1 is considered a sort of dinosaur among fast-flying aircraft. But it is still useful as a laboratory testing device...
Because of the characteristics of its molecules, gaseous ammonia absorbs radio microwaves of certain sharp frequencies. When such waves are shot through ammonia gas, the radio waves are absorbed as long as they are vibrating at the right speed. If they vibrate too fast or too slow, an electronic device retunes the transmitter and makes the waves vibrate at the exact frequency that is absorbed most strongly. Thus the waves, regulated by the ammonia molecules as the escapement of a clock is regulated by its pendulum, keep to a steady beat. Hitched to a "frequency divider," they measure time accurately...