Word: faster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Progress. "The Chinese," White concluded, "have advanced during the war from a fourth rate Army to a second rate Army. This is progress. Before the war the Chinese Armies were notorious for the fact that they could run faster and retreat in worse disorder than any known national group of armed men. This was understandable because of the world in which they lived, and the causes for which they were asked to die. Cowardice was common-'kai pa' ('I'm afraid') was heard on every hand. But the present Chinese Army has spirit. It glows...
Convoys can go no faster than their slowest members. Mr. Churchill said that the system has now been speeded by instituting "slow" and "fast" convoys, so that wallowing tramps do not hold up the parade.* He pointed out that while losses of British merchant shipping declined in October to half the tonnage lost in September, and again in November to two-thirds of October, neutrals last month lost four times what they lost in September. This, he said, "is indeed a strange kind of warfare for the German Navy to engage in. When driven off the shipping of their declared...
Another possibility envisaged by Mr. Baker is that the new design may prove useful for aerial and landscape photography, discounting its greater awkwardness by its faster lens and sharper definition...
...spite of their boom, furniture manufacturers were not cheery. They believed that retailers were stocking up faster than the public was buying. They feared that raw material prices would rise, boosting prices and nipping the industry's little boomlet. They gloomed that if World War II brings increased construction costs, new home building will suffer. All the same, 1939 household furniture sales should exceed $400,000,000 for the first time since...
...What A Life," with Jackie Cooper, is an unsuccessful small-town drama which might have gone over with a better script, faster-paced direction, fewer cliches, and Mickey Rooney...