Word: swifter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admiral Mahan died in 1914, too early to realize that World War I would produce another kind of power, air power. Far swifter, far more plastic, perhaps far deadlier than any weapon previously invented by man, its great potentialities nevertheless remained, after 25 years of development and 1,000 hours of the war that would ultimately prove its potency, almost as untried as the 2,000,000 troops facing each other last week across the Rhine...
...hard to remedy, and more of the same kind are likely to appear. But if the Student Council keeps after the situation, and with the officials of the Library now awaking to the possibilities of making the College library amount to what its name implies, the hopes for better, swifter, and more complete service are improving every...
...speech last night left no twilight zone of doubt or uncertainty as to his meaning. He tossed aside with contempt the cloak of specious argument with which he dressed his initial proposal of judicial reorganization. Last night heard no plea for the expediting of judicial business, no claim for swifter-footed justice more accessible to the poor man, no proposals for the relief of senility on the Federal bench...
Meanwhile in Germany the Colonel kept up his chosen work, raised his glass at a dinner of German pursuit plane pilots in this toast, "Here's to bombers, may they fly slower; and here's to pursuit planes, may they fly swifter...
...House did as the President wished-insisted on a two-year extension without emasculation-it appeared that NRA's death might be swifter. For the Senate had passed the nine-months resolution only because Senator Borah and other NRA enemies had agreed to it as a price for not fighting any form of NRA renewal. Said Senator Pat Harrison, Administration whip...