Search Details

Word: slower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...year-old world record by a tenth of a second. Next day, running into a light head wind, Sime had to settle for 0:09.5 in the 100-yd. dash, 0:20.3 in the 220-yd. dash and 0:22.4 in the 220-yd. hurdles. All the times were slower than the world marks he had hoped for; still he had set three new conference records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Class of the Field | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...about mail delivery in America, the letter carrier decides to modernize his own haphazard methods. But when he takes his job seriously, he scatters leisurely groups of chickens, geese, and villagers in all directions as he races through his route. In the end, American efficiency looses out to the slower pace of France, and peace returns to the village. But the interval of madness, while it lasts, is very entertaining...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Big Day | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Last week, in the same pool, he clocked 18:20.2 for 1,500 meters to win the A.A.U. title. The slower time was intentional-Breen kept on going until he had finished a full mile in the water, finished in 19:40.4, a new world record. Another Counsilman protegé, Frankie Brunnell, 17, of Philadelphia's Vesper Swim Club, finished second in the 1,500-meter with a commendable 19:38.2. Later in the week, Breen won another title with a fast 4:30.1 in the 440-just two seconds slower than the world record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Victory for the Flail | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...with Raytheon Manufacturing Co. for $5,000,000 worth of long-range radars for 15 major Canadian airports from Moncton, N.B. to Vancouver. When the system is in operation in 1958, it will keep the headlong jets from 1) treading on each other's heels, 2) overrunning the slower, propeller-driven craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Airway Stop & Go | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...touches the wall, 2) that they must watch the whole length of the finish line rather than just one lane, and 3) that human errors often result in the same man being picked for both first and second place, or in the winning swimmer being credited with a slower time than the men he has beaten...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Machine Age Monkeyshines | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Previous | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | Next