Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worker is apparently in good health and shows absolutely no clinical symptoms, although his liver is becoming possible prey for disease. This organ is the only one affected by the fumes but acording to the experiments, recovery from this weakening is very slow even if the worker is no longer exposed to the fumes and can avoid liver complications...
...Under better physiological conditions, with a simplified cockpit and an enlarged crew, there would be greater safety, fewer pilot errors, fewer crashes, less loss of life and equipment and great revenue from a more confident public. There would be a less rapid turnover of pilots and a longer useful service, and they would live a longer and more healthful life...
Dieffenbach dismissed as "absurd." Half of the rest were chiefly bothered by the above-mentioned frustrations. Personal problems such as whom to marry ranked second in this group. A "sense of sin," which used to worry New Englanders, appeared no longer to do so appreciably; it ranked ninth and last among inner problems...
...Voice, Fiddle and Flute, No longer be mute...
Author O'Connor writes in a bold, colloquial, summarizing prose, with paragraphs trailing off into dull anticlimaxes ("When he got so he couldn't stand it any longer he'd go into Phoenix and get blind-leaping drunk and spend too much dough and make a fool out of himself"). Inadequate for detailing such complex figures, as O'Rielly, this style works well in accounting for dumb, dangerous Bill Crockett, who develops from a cowboy to a highwayman, but can never understand why his companions grin knowingly or sigh wearily when he talks about...