Word: slowest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dark, found the next morning that they had slept almost beside the spring they were trying to find. Shorty believed that Death Valley got so hot that gas rose out of the ground. He said the ducks carried canteens when they flew over it. Travel ing by burro, the slowest method of transportation known to man, he was al ways in a great hurry to get from one desolate point to another just as desolate...
...awaiting their arrival in New York City? And Stars Remain opened in Washington Oct. 5 and is being reviewed in your issue of Oct. 26, fairly favorably. It's one of the poorest shows ever to grace, or disgrace, our local stage. It was one of the slowest moving shows ever to open here and if it weren't for Clifton Webb, who is the show, it probably wouldn't have opened...
Largely because of the impetus of the War, the U. S. merchant fleet remains the second largest in the world. It is also the oldest and slowest collection of tubs owned by any important maritime nation. To replace it with a top-notch fleet, Congress last spring passed the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, offering the most liberal seagoing subsidies in U. S. history, including payments to shipbuilders of as much as 50% of construction costs and payments to ship-operators sufficient to put them on an equal basis with foreign competitors (TIME, July 13). To administer these important projects...
...orchestra will play sets of four or five numbers lasting amount 20 minutes with five minute intermissions. In these sets will be a variety of tunes, varying from the hottest swing numbers to the slowest waltzes...
...seconds. Thereafter, at an unpredictable interval, the amber light turned red. As soon as he saw the red light the subject removed his foot from the accelerator, applied the brake. The time interval was electrically measured. The average reaction time was .43 sec. The fastest was .26 sec. The slowest was .90 sec. It was found that tall persons generally react a little more slowly than short people, no doubt because motor nerve impulses travel through the body at about 300 ft. per sec. and thus for tall persons the motor impulse would take longer to go from the brain...