Word: slower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leslie B. Nelson started building houses in Santa Barbara, Calif. after the war. With another loan, of $17,500, he built more than $4,500,000 worth of medium-priced houses, but he wasn't satisfied. He thought house prices too high. "No business," he complained, "has progressed slower than building...
...down at approximately the same time, and only one elevator exists for that purpose, the call button scramble demands a good deal of timing. The inept can hear the elevator going up and down time and time again, never stopping because their button-pushing is always a half second slower than that of more skilled competitors...
...crowd flocked to performances of Der Rosenkavalier, were slower to buy up seats for Hindemith's more modern Mathis der Mahler. They cheered for Eduard van Beinum and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra when it played The Rite of Spring and for Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet's new Reflection, liked Tyrone Guthrie's production of an 18th century ballad opera, The Highland Fair...
...Planes whose turbines drive propellers. They fly slower than the pure jets (but on less fuel) and are much faster than the comparable piston planes...
...slower, we digress more, there's more tittle-tattle." says Impresario Maurice Winnick. Winnick bought What's My Line? (along with Mutual's quiz show, Twenty Questions) and sold it to the BBC, although some Britons insist that What's My Line? is derived from a 1946 BBC show called What's in a Face...