Word: slower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City in 1942 in a wave of economy and possible equalitarianism: "We do a better job than comprehensive schools do in their honors courses. The teacher is the key; in our school the teacher doesn't have his courses divided so that he has to spend time with slower pupils. He's free to try new things. He can stimulate and become as stimulated as his students; if he's wise, he grows with them." Says one stimulated teacher: "It's a privilege to be here; it's constantly exhilarating. The problem is that...
...Crimson time was 9:20.0, while Syracuse finished 20 seconds slower. M.I.T. and B.U. offered even less competition...
...conductor meets resistance and therefore slows down. Physicist Neuringer's proposal is to create a strong magnetic field on the front surface of the re-entry body. When ionized air flows across it, the braking action of the magnetism will make it pile up in a deeper, slower moving layer that will not transfer as much heat to the solid surface...
...Rhythm (Teddy Wilson; Verve). For those who like their piano well-flavored and with the angularities gone. The slower selections such as All of Me sometimes lose their way, but Pianist Wilson swings through the propulsive numbers-Sweet Georgia Brown, Smile, Limehouse Blues-with fine buoyancy and the amiable air of a man who could not utter a harsh note if he tried...
...sides, while Yoben is a Royalist. Enter, inevitably, Oliver Cromwell, whom Novelist Goudge feels she knows intimately, including his conversation. "My lord, we must act at once!" cries "Old Noll" Cromwell to his C. in C., the Earl of Essex. "Let us do nothing hastily, Colonel Cromwell," answers the slower-moving peer, then adds: "Decisive victory now would prevent incalculable suffering." Probably, muses one character, they are saying the same thing in the enemy camp-and sure enough King Charles had told his aide, Lord Leyland: "Francis, if I can win an overwhelming victory . . . my people will be spared...