Word: slower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...range of heartbeats as measured by EKG time intervals must be widened to allow for differences in the size of the heart. A newborn baby's heart beats twice as fast as an adult's, and the different impulses within each beat are faster. Small whales have slower rates than big men. From the heart of Moby Dick, Dr. White hopes to extend his normal readings to the limit of the mammalian scale...
...meet's scoring honors. He tied last evening's high jump and finished third in the hurdles. Jumbo Jack Goldberg took first in the hurdles and fourth in the 50 yard dash, for six points. Brow 's Walter Molineux won the mile in 4:40.3, exactly 31 seconds slower than his Millrose time...
...place next year, the Physical Department will offer a three semester course that will cover approximately the same material but will proceed at a slower, surer rate Kenneth T. Bainbridge Department Chairman, announced yesterday...
...There can be no excuse for ... lessened effort, slower tempo, reduced goals and apathetic resignation . . . My responsibility for the military defense of the NATO nations of Europe is not qualified. I am not told to defend just parts of them and their peoples. Nor am I told that my responsibility is to become effective at some future date. I have it today...
Play and moviegoers unfamiliar with the tangled tale of Streetcar were hard put to follow the plot line, but found it gripping and disturbing nevertheless. Beaten Blanche Du Bois, danced by Slavenska, quickly revealed the incipient madness which, in the play, had a slower buildup. Thereafter, the dance action veered between Blanche's lurid inner life and the real life of a New Orleans slum: Blanche's wistful meeting with a potential suitor, a boisterous crap game, the taut marriage of her sister and brother-in-law (danced by Lois Ellyn and Franklin). Dramatic climax: a hair-raising...