Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...standard-speed, range, comfort, power-the U. S. Navy's new destroyers (1,500-1,650 tons) are as much superior to the 50 "tin cans" given to Great Britain in the bases deal as a 1941 Cadillac limousine is to a 1908 Maxwell roadster. Yet the Navy was sorry to see its 50 old four-pipers go. They were pesky, hard-sledding, pitched and rolled in any kind of sea with the unpredictable ill humor of a sunfishing mustang. But they were ships. They were reasonably fast (around 35 knots) and they could still make...
...After them will come seven more, all ordered (and all under construction). Barring a war, in 1945-46 the U. S. will have 18 carriers. If Britain should fall this spring and surrender its fleet intact to Germany, the U. S. Navy's carrier equipment would be superior to Adolf Hitler's by only 31,200 tons. But if this new German strength should be backed up by Japan's fleet (eleven carriers), U. S. carriers would be outnumbered nearly 2-to-1 in tonnage, 3-to-1 in numbers...
...Ahead. It is quite obvious that the only way of stopping the expansion of the Hitler Europe is to confront it somewhere with a power possessed of superior armaments and an impregnable strategic position...
...forces in Egypt, had planned this whole adventure on his flower-crowded island in the Nile at Cairo with General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander in Chief of the Army of the Middle East, who blessed it with a ringing Order of the Day: ". . . In everything but numbers we are superior to the enemy. We are more highly trained. We shoot straighter. We have better equipment. Above all, we have stouter hearts and greater traditions...
...that third period. The defense became flustered, the goalie lost his confidence, and the forward lines became even more inefficent in their passing attacks than before, if that be possible. All in all the Terriers scored five goals in that fateful twenty minutes and outclassed their supposedly superior Crimson rivals by a wide margin...