Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the British-heavies were grounded, the R.A.F.'s sensational new bomber plane, the twin-engined, plywood Mosquito, stung the Reich by day & night with swift hit-&-run raids. On three successive nights last week Mosquitoes bombed Berlin by brightest moonlight; they made six raids against the Reich capital within eight days. From all these raids not a plane was lost; it was not until the sixth raid that Berlin gunners even scored a hit on a Mosquito. The plane they winged came back to England, flying at treetop height, with one motor shot...
Arthur Holl Phelan, Jr. (History and Literature), Sumner Murray RedStone, Thomas Reaser Roberts (Chemistry), Albert Miller Rockwood (Engineering Sciences), Gilbert Jacob Rose (psychology), Howard D Sharpe, Jr. (Economics), Lakrence David Shubow, Paul Robert Stein (Chemistry and Physics), Richard Newton Swift (Histor yand Literature), Samuel Arthur Tucker (Government), Charles Ragan Weaver, Robert Byers Wilcox (History), Richard Howard Wolford (Economics...
Schofield Andrews, Jr., David Bullard, Arnold, Jr., Alfre Lerow Atherton, Jr., Warren Stanley Berg, Stuart Marshall Beringer, David George Bernard, Franklin Swift Billings, Jr., George Edward Byers, Jr., George Scull Cook, Jacob Leslie Crane, 3d., Richard Lloyd Davies, George Chaffee Dillon, Frederick William Eaton, 2d., James Murray Forbes, Henry Edgar Frachtman, George William French, 2d., John Winslow Frenning, Bernard Sholom Glassman, Aram Harry Hatch...
...fancy theories about his speed. A bashful, homespun farmer's son, reared in the wooded hills of northern Sweden, he attributes his flawless style to the springy forest paths, thickly padded with pine needles, where he first learned to run. He believes he is smooth and swift because he enjoys running more than anything else in the world except playing his accordion and doing the hambo, a native Swedish dance...
...years ago such an assignment would have called for weeks of preparation. That ATC could put it through now with such swift efficiency was the result of many providential circumstances. One of them is that the wide-open spaces of the U.S. had given it the finest domestic and ocean air-transport system in the world...