Word: slower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second, Odell used more quick-opening plays, while Hickman employs considerable single wing blocking with his plays. Herman reflects the experience of Red Blaik at Army that a well drilled team need not lose deception by slower-opening plays, which use more dependable single wing blocking...
Bollinger uses two devices to tone his planes down. Most airplane noise comes from air currents around fast-moving propeller tips. The engines are therefore geared down to make the blades move slower, and four-bladed props are used instead...
...would be much slower to react militarily against Russian political gains. (Highly probable...
...mistakenly worried about a recession, finally thought that the boom was tapering off, but he saw no bust in sight. There were plenty of signs of the boom's end, he told the Mortgage Bankers Association in Manhattan, "in the slackening rate of increase in spending, in the slower rise in prices and wages, in the halt of the increase in bank credit, and in the drop in the net export surplus...
...landmark, no mere handy figure for public relations officers. It is basic: the speed with which a "compression wave" (whether a faint whisper or the crushing shock wave of an atomic explosion) moves through air. The actual speed varies considerably with the air's temperature (the colder the slower). To eliminate this variability from their figuring, scientists have given the speed of sound a special name. In aerodynamics, the speed of sound in any air under consideration is called "Mach I,"* no matter what the actual speed...