Word: faster
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Broadway success; but when playwrights really clean up it is by selling their smash hits to Hollywood. In 1939 Hollywood paid almost $1,000,000 for 17 Broadway plays. In the first two months of 1940 it paid about half that for five. But though plays are selling faster and for generally higher prices this year than last, most of Broadway's fanciest merchandise is still on the counter...
...same direction and in almost the same plane, he has wondered how it all started. Pierre Laplace, French mathematician (1749-1827), devised the celebrated "nebular hypothesis": that the solar system was originally a diffuse, whirling, gaseous mass. As this nebular mass became smaller and denser, it whirled faster, until centrifugal force threw off a ring of gas. The process was repeated, each gas ring coalescing into a planet and the sun finally settling down to its present calm estate...
...were fighting, I was working with the bureau of aircraft production in Washington," Professor Marks reflected. My associates and I were planning a tank that would run under the Rhine and come up the other bank. We were also working on a machine gun that would five ten times faster than any before...
...same time will try to keep his aces, Ned Parke and Al Vande Weghe out of the first event. His trio of Scammell, McClure, and Boozan versus Art Bosworth, Jack Waldron, and Lonine Stowell should provide the spectators with a genuinely rip-roaring race. Bosworth ought to be slightly faster than Scammell, McClure speedier than Waldron, and Stowell should be given a small margin over Boozan--according to past performances--and on the result may hinge the outcome of the meet...
...boardmen will be competing in faster company than any they have met this year. When three flashy New York two mile relay teams burned up the track and left the Crimson men only cinders to run on a lap in the lag at the BAA meet, Harvard got a preview of the show that will unfold this weekend...