Word: faster
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...weeks since British battalions landed there for the purpose, the whole world believed, of pushing the German invaders out of Norway. Instead, all the pushing-and a lot of punching, hammering, rushing and blasting-had been done by the Germans. It was the British who went out backwards, faster than they had come...
...rest of the sweepsters are running pretty closely on an equal footing, but Lowell and Leverett have been improving a little faster than have Adams, Dunster, Kirkland, and Winthrop. The difference is slight, and is really a day-today affair...
...oversight or bad reporting that TIME failed to note that Miss Jacqueline Cochran flew an experimental military pursuit airplane, owned and designed by Republic Aviation Corp., when she flew three weeks ago, under rigid test conditions, faster than man (or woman) ever has done before on a 2,000 kilometer course...
...foods had spread to sugar and shipping stocks, but without developing a very high color. For U. S. business was as bewildered by the turn of events as any Norwegian soldier. One thing was certain: the U. S. had lost an export market. And none pulled out of it faster than Moore-McCormack Lines, No. 1 U. S.-to-Scandinavia ship-operator. Day of Blitzkrieg's beginning, Moore-McCormack got busy on the radio. To Mormacstar and Mormactide, far out in the Atlantic, Scandinavia-bound, went orders to [ turn about, keep steerage way with their bows pointed west, pending...
...Down in the big chair Sir Kingsley had vacated sat lean old Sir Samuel Hoare, who had been Air Secretary twice before (1922-24, 1924-29). Although British experts think planes can be produced much faster than "Cherub" Wood produced them, few thought last week that Sir Samuel, most famed as the co-planner of the abortive Hoare-Laval Ethiopian deal, was the man to produce them...