Word: slower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question is what are the real differences between the two records. The leading considerations are speed of revolution and playing time. Both records use speeds slower than ordinary. Victor uses the gain in time to reduce the size of the record; Columbia puts more music on the standard size record. Victor's claim that its speed of 45 revolutions per minute is better than Columbia's 33 1/3 is true only in an historical sense. The Victor speed presents a much easier engineering problem than the Columbia speed. Victor records, therefore, have a uniform quality while Columbia's quality varies...
...College Try. There was small change from one edition to another. The slower VariType system (TIME, Feb. 16, 1948) had forced the papers to advance deadlines two hours, inevitably taking the edge off the news. Papers were turning more & more to roundups and canned features to make up for the news they skipped. The Trib's Managing Editor J. Loy ("Pat") Maloney thought it was not all loss. Said he: "We have told the background of the news better under strike conditions than [before]." And Daily News Managing Editor Everett Norlander detected another gain: "We've learned...
Even flying much slower than sound, airplanes can run afoul of shock waves. The air crowding past them has to go faster to get around their curved surfaces. If, in its hurry, the air hits the speed of sound, shock waves form locally. Good design has steadily raised the speed at which an airplane can fly without trouble from local shock waves. But there is a limit: the speed of sound itself.* At this critical speed, an airplane's motion is sure to generate shock waves...
Instead, the curtain had gone up on a slow first act in which Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader Scott Lucas had run off one or two minor legislative routines. The pace should have been brisk; it was slow, and as the act proceeded, it got slower. That could be explained by the necessity of getting things organized. But the author, for one, believed that the trouble might be deeper than that. Last week he sailed on stage to charge that someone, in fact, had rewritten part of his show...
Optimism pervaded farther west on Mount Auburn st. at J. Press. "Lot's of people in this business are nervous, but I can't see why," said manager Al Goro. "Sure business is a little slower and its my opinion that prices will case off a little...