Word: slower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trolley car, or-as their operators prefer to call it-the "electric railway industry," is only 36 years old. Not until May 4, 1888, did the first commercially successful overhead trolley car appear in this country and spell the extinction of the older, slower and smaller 'horse car ' systems. To Richmond, Virginia, belongs the honor of witnessing on that date the beginning of the electrically-operated street railways. From that experimental beginning, the industry grew until at present it represents about $6,000,000,000 of invested capital, an annual income of about...
Landlords are now clamoring for slower production so that rents can be held up and depreciation in earning power of properties avoided. But tenants, for just the opposite reason, wish the building trades all good fortune in their record program for the Spring...
...motor fails there is a dangerous tendency to slew the machine 'round. With the motors in tandem, the thrust of the propellers is always at the centre of the plane; and with one motor completely out of commission, the aviator can keep on going, even though at a slower speed. The engines are carefully housed to prevent freezing. The fuselages are double-walled like a thermos bottle, with nonconducting material between the walls. A special dynamo provides electricity for heating devices to keep the crew warm in the enclosed cabin, and to prevent gasoline and oil from freezing...
...indoor track meet in New York, in which the University placed eleventh, was the one-mile relay. In this the Harvard runners upset all predictions by coming in a hair's breadth behind Yale for second place, with a time of less than a fifth of a second slower than the record. In the other events, barring the high jump in which Gerould tied for second, the University failed to place...
...keeping well at the head of the field throughout the race, and finally, thanks to Allen's phenomenal running as anchor man for the University, by finishing scarcely a hair's breadth behind Chapman of Yale, with a time which was less than a fifth of a second slower than the world's record,--3 minutes 22 4-5 seconds. Yale won the race, as had been expected, with its veteran team of Norton, Geilfuss, Gage, and Chapman; but in pushing them so hard, the University quartet exceeded the hopes of its most ardent supporters...