Word: slowest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...quickest reactions in all positions and tests were found to be given by a single individual as were also the slowest. The slightest and greatest errors are more scattered among the subjects. The range of individual variation in quickness and accuracy is sufficient to determine the position of any given subject in the series...
...substitutes are Brewer, Bisbee and Pike, the last of whom is the slowest of the three in his movements...
...notes of most instruments is the tendency of elastic bodies to vibrate in a way capable of analysis into a number of manners of vibration having different rates. In some sources of tone the quicker of these vibrations are always an integral number of times as fast as the slowest, (which is also generally the strongest). In others the quicker rates are in general fractional multiples of the slowest. To the latter class belong instruments like bells and drums giving less perfect notes; the former class including all musical instruments properly so called. The cause of this aesthetic distinction Helmboltz...