Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...robber with the bank swag made a run for it as a confederate yelled: "Go on! Go on! Take to the woods! We'll deal with these fellows!" Alas, poor thief, he was up against no common adversary. He had tangled with none other than Tom Swift...
...thousand similar adventures that made him the favorite of three generations of U.S. boys. When Charles A. Lindbergh hopped the Atlantic in 1927, they were the ones who cheered but were not surprised. How could they have been? Ever since 1910, smart, modest, infinitely courageous Tom Swift had been flying everything from balloons to transcontinental airline expresses, had, besides, invented his own submarine, photo-telephone, electric rifle and enough other practical wonders to make Ford and Edison seem like smalltime putterers...
...after 40 books and 15 million copies sold, Tom Swift went the way of such other grand heroes of boyhood as Frank Merriwell and the fun-loving Rover Boys. What finished the Tom Swift series was a combination of crushers which could as easily have done in Ulysses or Sir Lancelot. A world war and stranger-than-fiction real inventions had furnished competitive excitements that made Tom .seem a little archaic. The paper shortage did not help, and almost as disastrous was the decision of Author Victor Appleton, Tom's creator, to let his hero marry sweet, pert Mary...
...Rebirth of Tom. But there are millions of strong men in whose hearts Tom has a permanent place in the corner marked nostalgia. For them, the first week of 1954 brings stirring news: Tom Swift is back. And with him is Tom Swift Jr., who the publishers hope may compete as successfully with television as old Tom did with chores. The new Tom Swift Jr. yarns have made one concession to the times that old Tom would have scorned: three scientists, all Ph.D.s, have been hired to ride herd as technical advisers. The publishers feel they are necessary, and they...
...aroused the admiration of his fans by changing the gear ratio to get unheard-of speed out of his motorcycle, his son completes a revolutionary radioactivity detector overnight. In 1910, Tom had his readers chewing their nails when he ascended in a crude dirigible. In 1954's Tom Swift and His Flying Lab, the alert hero finds the world's greatest uranium deposits, battles international spy rings and gangsters instead of the tramps and crude thieves his father triumphed over...