Word: swifter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allais' admirers insist that his method is swifter, simpler and safer-but so far, the U.S. is a long way from accepting it. Schneider himself still teaches at the Eastern skiers' mecca, North Conway, N.H. Most U.S. Olympic stars, including Slalom Champion Gretchen Fraser, are confirmed Arlbergians. Even Sun Valley isn't committed: it is teaching both methods...
Even that might be a long time for the Russians to wait; so swifter means were tested this week. In retaliation against the Western powers' new German currency (TIME, June 28), Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky proclaimed that the Russians alone had the right to determine what currency should be used in Berlin, issued "new" money of his own by pasting stickers on old reichsmarks. (Berliners preferred crisp U.S.-printed bills, called the Russian currency "Tapetenmark"-wallpaper money...
Luxury Ferry. Grey and ghostlike in her war paint and swifter than any but the fastest warships (an average speed: 30 knots), the Queen Mary whipped around the Cape of Good Hope and up to Suez, turned up again & again in Boston and in Manhattan's North River, was sighted by Allied sailormen in ports and anchorages around the world. By the end of her war service she had carried 765,000 Allied troops to & from battle areas...
Also aiding the Nassau victory was the Tigers' performance at the foul line. Princeton converted 17 of 22 free throws in a foul-fraught contest. The Varsity made a respectable 11 for 15, but the swifter Princeton players were able to draw more penalty shots, a big factor in their triumph...
...comics which keeps readers from liking the others." He saves his sharpest slings for Superman's female counterpart, a four-year-old character named Wonder Woman, who is described by her creator as "the girl from Paradise Isle, beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, stronger than Hercules and swifter than Mercury." Wonder Woman swears "By Zeus!" and regularly prays to Aphrodite-which Ong says is Hitlerite paganism...