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Word: slowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sailor for 40 years and world Star-class champion in 1930, Knapp, 51, is no stranger to America's Cup races. In the last one, 21 years ago, he crewed aboard Harold Vanderbilt's victorious Ranger. After a slow start, he molded Weatherly's crew into a smooth-working unit, and his boat continues to improve. Vim's Matthews, at 24 the youngest of the skippers, is unsurpassed at beating the competition to the starting line by precious seconds, in last week's trial series trailed only once at the opening gun. But many experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cup Trials | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...down six of the first eight shown) and reworking begins. When the first classes see the two $50.000 films next spring, nine months of painstaking effort will have gone into them. Sample: frequency of the vibration of the atoms within the molecules is calculated on computers, scaled down to slow motion. Says enthusiastic, new-fledged Film Maker Hildebrand: "We're dealing with complex motions and time effects-different molecules doing different things. We explain each molecule before we combine it into the molecule complex. The motion picture is the ideal medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Films that Teach | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...Never slow to slip into a good thing, the fashion industry already counts more than a dozen firms making tights, selling all they can produce at prices ranging around $4 to $5 for adults. Most are made of stretch nylon, come in a rainbow of colors-witch black, seaweed green, wild teal and fire orange. They are often worn with shell shoes, sneakers or moccasins. Says a Detroit buyer: "Did you ever hear of warm, comfortable, fashionable glamour? Well, this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: The Tights Have It | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Pursewarden, who might thereby escape Nessim's slow-burning revenge. Darley would willingly have died at Justine's command, but Pursewarden, her real love, considers Justine merely "a tiresome old sexual turnstile through which presumably we must all pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cabal & Kaleidoscope | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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