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Word: quickers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Submariners jokingly point to the 50% extra pay as their reason for volunteering. But they don't do what they do for money. Pride in their hard service is a big factor. So is plain patriotism-the subs promise quick action. Quicker command for young officers, quicker advancement for enlisted men, are other reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Iron Men for the Iron Sharks | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...huge Rhinebeck estate where he spent an occasional weekend, he wrote: "If I had one tenth what those people have, I'd be a great man ten years quicker." He still felt anguish at being in his mother's debt; he hoped to repay her and assert his superiority by the little boy's revenge of becoming famous. "I shall be great -if I do not die too soon - and you will be known as my mother." During a 1924 trip through Europe he pleaded: "Please, if you are able, stand by me a little longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother and Son | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...knot C-type freighters. But there are two compelling reasons for sticking to the Liberty program: 1) the Liberty is far easier to build, and as Henry Kaiser and many another shipbuilder has shown, can be mass-produced; 2) the Liberty takes an old-fashioned reciprocating engine, easier and quicker to produce than the delicate high-speed turbines that must go into destroyers and some escort vessels. Geared turbines are at the moment more precious to the U.S. Navy than diamonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Price Liberty? | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...generals whose job it is to train astronomical numbers of young men to fly delicate complex machines thought they might have hit upon a way to save some of the young men from dying early, some of the machines from being smashed. Hard-pressed to turn out more pilots quicker,* the Flying Command scheme is simple: teach the teachers. Throughout his huge, 56-station Southeast Training Command, Major General Ralph Royce has set up Advisory Training Boards (formerly called Flying Evaluation Boards) to comb over the instructors, re-educate them if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Teaching the Teachers | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...exist if it were not itself isolated from reason. . . . [Schroeder] was still making isolationist speeches just before last week's election. Such a stand . . . makes the suggestion of his name an insult to sound Republicanism. ... If the party wished to commit suicide it could hardly do a quicker or more effective job than by placing a Schroeder in command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men and An Issue | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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