Word: slower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Michael Schwab, Bethlehem Steel: "On my return to Manhattan last week with Dr. Samuel Alburtus Brown, Dean of New York University Medical School, who has accompanied me on my European vacations the past 25 years, I remarked: 'I have to take things slower now than I did a few years ago. I don't smoke and I take one drink a day under doctors' orders...
...women. He posted ?1,000 ($4,870) to that end. Last week, puffing and panting, swimmer Norman Leslie Derham of Southend waded ashore at Dover to collect Lord Riddell's money. His time was 13 hrs.: 56 min.-35 min. faster than Miss Ederle, but 171 min. slower than Baker Michel of France. British hardihood was somewhat vindicated...
...make flying as general as automobiling; promised that the international competition, made "interesting" by $150,000 to $200,000, which the Guggenheim Foundation is to conduct over the next three years, would turn designer's minds from the speed craze* to safety. The principal factors to be developed: slower landing speeds, steeper landing angles...
...collapsed. The next afternoon the Englishman gave up one mile from the Shakespeare Cliffs at Dover. At 3:10 p. m. the daughter of the Vikings stumbled on the sands of Dover beach, collapsed. She was the first mother to swim the English Channel. Her time was an hour slower than Gertrude Ederle's. Mrs. Corson (nee Amelia Gade) revived, told the crowd around her: "I was determined to make it or go down. I have to make some money for my kids...
...time trial of Saturday was regarded here as a good test. Two of the timers caught the crew at 19.46 and Head Coach at 19.50, the time that was first given out. The average of 19.18 is only one second slower than the time made by the Yale University crew which rowed 15 minutes later...