Word: split-second
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...sake of bilking his small-town cronies. His wife (Myrna Loy) walks through these comic revels as cool as a julep, never quite understanding the sudden transformation of the husband she was about to divorce. The reappearance of cinema's No. 1 man-&-wife team results in split-second timing of some of the sauciest dialogue since the Hays office eased the ban on innuendo...
...driver must use split-second judgment, must take icy hairpin curves with hairline precision at 70 m.p.h., must keep his 500-lb. sled in the centre of the straightaways. Bobsled drivers are usually big, bold iron...
Life span of guns charged to fire 25 miles or better is about three seconds, net. That is, they can fire perhaps 50 times before their rifled steel linings are so scored by hot, high-pressure gases in the split-second of explosion that they become inaccurate. Such guns must be cooled between shots or their barrels, superheated, will sag at the muzzle. Between shots, too, their gunners must calculate (from a pressure gauge communicating with the bore) how much to add to the charge to allow for progressive scoring and keep up the range...
Distinctive national insignia for fighting planes were originated early in the World War so that in the split-second action of aerial dogfights pilots could quickly identify friendly planes, would fire on none by mistake. After the War their use soon spread to all the world's air forces. Even with camouflage they will probably be used in the next great war, both for their identification factor and because the sight of friendly wings overhead is a morale builder for ground troops. As the flags of nations have disappeared from modern battlefields, they thus reappear, in new forms...
...Tiny Thompson philosophically packed his bags, including the lucky goalie pads he has been wearing for 14 years, pocketed the $1,000 check the Bruins gave him to soothe his injured feelings, and entrained for Detroit. There the nimble hands, quick eyes and split-second judgment that had made him the best goalie in the world behaved as well for the Red Wings as they had for the Bruins. In his first game the Red Wings trounced the top-notch Chicago Black Hawks, 4-to-1. "We'll be just as good as Boston before long," chuckled Newcomer Thompson...