Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fast Jet. In late December, says Namias, the waves in the planetary wind were feeble and lethargic. The wind blew almost due east across the U.S., and since its energy was not dissipated in zigzag waves, it blew unusually fast; the jet stream, its fast-moving core, was clocked at 170 m.p.h. But the mixing effect of the wind was almost nil. The Arctic kept its cold air and grew colder and colder as its heat radiated into space, while the U.S. stayed warm. The port of Green Bay, Wis. was open for navigation on Dec. 29, the first time...
Extra Push. When the ill winds moved over the Atlantic, they blew a little good. The jet stream high overhead was still moving unusually fast, and it got an extra push from the two near-hurricanes that had formed when cold air from the north mixed with tropical air. A British weather ship stationed 600 miles west of Ireland reported a 230-mile wind blowing eastward at 34,000 ft. Transatlantic airliners, hooking rides on it, broke record after record. A turboprop Britannia of British Overseas Airways made the first commercial New York-London flight in under eight hours...
...Conditioned Reflex." At 32, Schaus is a boyish, genial giant (6 ft. 5 in., 220 lbs.) who still can mix it up with his team in practice, still share his team's private jokes. But he is also a solid tactician who builds his offense around a whirling fast break led by Forward Bob Smith, insists on a dogged, man-to-man defense...
...aggressive, fast-moving Greenough quintet last night captured the freshman intramural basketball crown, overcoming Holworthy...
...Tractor. He soon caught the fancy of Co-Founder Charles E. Merrill, himself an Amherst man, and rose fast from salesman to bond department manager to sales manager. Carrying out Charlie Merrill's expansion policies, Win Smith in 1940 initiated and was a chief negotiator in the merger with E. A. Pierce & Co., was made managing partner of the joint firm. A year later he helped bring Fenner & Beane into the combine. From 1944 onward, Smith really ran the company for ailing Directing Partner Merrill. When Merrill died * (TIME, Oct.15, 1956), Smith took his title...