Word: faster
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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They were, in fact, the best destroyers the U. S. Navy had up to 1934. Then bigger (1,395-1,850 tons), faster (maximum 41 knots), more maneuverable and better-gunned destroyers began to come off the ways.* The Navy gradually retired its oldsters, but kept them greased. By last week, 123 were in service. Some have been converted into mine layers, some are being made into troop carriers and anti-aircraft batteries. Most were assigned to safe and stodgy neutrality patrol. The Navy last week had 78 modern destroyers, 57 more under construction and 74 planned. Even before...
Nowhere wan the "green officers and green men" principle more wholeheartedly adopted than at Harvard, where students got into uniforms much faster than the government could supply officers to instruct them...
...opposes gravity) increases with the distance of the object from the axis of spin. Hence the maximum effect would be felt at the equator (furthermost from the earth's axis of spin), least effect at the Pole (the axis). If the earth's rotation were 17 times faster, men at the equator would weigh nothing, drift off into space...
...tufters, whose working hours no time clock had ever measured, were out of luck. Rather than pay their tufters the law's wages, the bedspread makers bought tufting machines and moved production into factories. Most of the new factories sprang up around Dalton. The industry, now mechanized, grew faster than ever...
...week, when the 37th Gold Cup race was staged at Northport Harbor on Long Island Sound, two entries boasted speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h.: Lou Fageol's So Long (97.451 m.p.h. over a measured mile) and George Cannon's Gray Goose III (92.309 m.p.h.). Motorboats have gone faster (Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird II hit 141 m.p.h. last year), but for a Gold Cup boat, limited to engines of 600 to 732 cu. in. piston displacement, 97 m.p.h. was going some...