Word: outshooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions and billions by 1943" keynote of America's war is based in turn on tales of our immense store of natural and industrial resources. Given time enough, the story goes, we can outbuild and outshoot any nation on earth. But reassuring though it sounds, it has a catch, in the form of several ignored but potent factors. First, we ignored the possibilities of a Japanese East Indies or a German Empire. Second, we ignored that Axis technological methods have left us behind in many fields. The third, and most correctible factor is that, through mere inertia in American industry...
...Submarines go about eight to ten knots submerged, 16 to 18 on the surface. The Norwegians argue that the British should mount antisubmarine guns and anti-aircraft guns on fast Norwegian ships, let them travel independently as some fast British vessels do now. They could then outrun submerged submarines, outshoot surface ones, and take their chances against air attack. > The British make each ship wait its turn to unload in British ports, regardless of cargo value and ship's speed. The Norwegians want port priorities for fast ships carrying only precious cargo...
...order to give an example of our deficiency as a unit in competition, the editor stated that Yale outshoot us last summer. His logic is poor, since his example is as true as inferring that all Harvard is radical because of the Student Union. The official report of firing practices by Harvard units on the U.S.S. Wyoming states that the firing training "was basically sound--this conclusion is verified by the fact that the practice was fired without casualties to material or personnel." The report from U.S.S. Leary of July 9th, 1940, in this regard, remarks, "Harvard R.O.T.C juniors...
...Fleet and the fall of France underscored that fact. With the capture of the Channel coast near Calais it also became possible for Hitler to emplace heavy artillery units to command not only the Channel but the British shore opposite-guns which because they fire from steady platforms can outshoot those of the British Fleet...
...first, this story of Alaska's plain pioneers is the 577-page tale of an idyllic young couple who drifted to Alaska from the Pacific Northwest, let the gold rush go by, while Husband John trapped, hunted, logged, did odd jobs, also proved he could outshoot and outfight the best of them. No less sentimental than prolific Author White's 21 other picturesque Western romances, Wild Geese Calling need not discourage any novelist aiming to stake a rival claim...