Word: faster
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that of a veteran campaigner than that of the fabled strong man who began by lifting a new born calf, hoisted it each day as it grew until he was able to lift a full-grown bull, with bystanders waiting for the day when Dewey's success, growing faster than he did, would finally floor...
...Stockton's four corners, yelling at the Negro women, asking them "How would you like to have this [rope] around your neck?" Terrified Lillian Blake promised to lead them to her man's hiding place. Someone pointed out that the two women, both barefoot, could walk faster if they were shod. A committee crowded into a store to buy shoes...
...Metallographer Oscar Edward Harder of Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio), working with Inland Steel Co.'s research staff, has developed a lead-steel alloy (one part of lead to 500 parts of steel) which is just as strong as leadless steel, but can be machined 30% to 50% faster for mass-production parts. The soft, tiny particles of lead in the alloy serve to lubricate the point where the tool cuts; the tool stays sharp longer, the machine runs faster...
...only was Katharine Dewey the first woman ever to win the national championship, but her time for the third heat was only 27/100 of a second over the record for the Mount Van Hoevenberg run, one of the world's fastest. Only Switzerland's St. Moritz is faster...
...Last week in New Deal Washington Republican Ohlson was getting ready to ask Congress for an appropriation of some $5,000,000 to build a 14-mile cutoff to the sea some 66 miles above Seward (see map) to make the Fairbanks-to-the-States run faster and cheaper. Because the U. S. is jittery about its Alaskan defenses (Russian Siberia is only 50 miles from the westernmost point of Alaska), and because the Army's two newly authorized air bases are on the A. R. R., Ohlson had hope of getting...