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Word: slow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always. In Washington, D.C., Oppenheimer once interrupted a lecture by a slow-moving ex-pupil: "Well, really, this room is full of people who know the answer to this question. Let's get on." *This view does not sit well with many scientists -- among them Nobel Prizewinner Percy Bridgman, Oppenheimer's ol'd Harvard teacher. Says Bridgman: "If anybody should feel guilty, it's God. He put the facts there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...minute and a half, the five-ton truck was almost full; in that time the machine had come close to the average U.S. production per man-day (around five tons). The machine's lone operator apologized because it had taken so long; he was running the digger at slow speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Coal Mole | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...Going Slow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball Coach Bill Barclay Cuts Squad to 20 Men | 11/4/1948 | See Source »

...very much about just how long it takes to prepare the film for Ultrafax to transmit. It must have been a weary business to photograph Gone With the Wind, page by page.* Present methods of putting printed matter on film (and RCA mentioned no improvement) are still slow, compared with the speed Ultrafax can boast in transmission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Flying Words | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

What Princeton did to these men was slightly less than scandalous. Off to a slow start this season, the Tigers are becoming more ferocious by the week. All of which means that Art Valpey's athletes are in for a long week of preparation for Saturday's game in Palmer Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers Look Menacing After 55-14 Trouncing of Virginia | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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