Word: slowest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second and third. The only non-Indianapolis-type cars to compete were British Jaguars, and three of them, entered by the same Scots team that swept the 24-hour Grand Prix at Le Mans, France, came in behind Parsons. So fast was the new Italian track that even the slowest car to finish shattered Sam Hanks's Indianapolis record of 135.601 m.p.h...
...mother taught her six children at home because time was wasted in school on nonessentials and the pace geared to the slowest. When my father, a lawyer, heard her plan, he said she was liable to be haled into court. Instead, the school department (Brockton, Mass.) sent us desks and chairs. Using her own original system, my mother telescoped six grammar grades into one year of home study. We went to school for the first time in the sixth grade at eight years of age; graduated from high school at fifteen and went to Radcliffe College or the Sorbonne...
Last year, for the first time since the war, said the report, the rate of housebuilding overtook the bare needs of replacement and population growth. The fastest-building countries were Norway (10.5 units per 1,000 pop.) and West Germany (10.2).* Slowest were Czechoslovakia (2.2) and East Germany (2.3). France, because it delayed so long and has so far to go. made the most dramatic acceleration (40% of French houses have officially passed the age of obsolescence-100 years). In two years, France's construction doubled to 162,000 units...
Born in a taxicab in Tennessee, Slowest cab that you ever did see, Warmed up his bottle and he took him a nip - He didn't even leave the driver a tip! Davy, Davy Crewcut, the cat with the coonskin...
...COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, by Warren Eyster (597 pp.; Random House; $4.95), is the slowest-starting melodrama since John Hersey covered umpteen pages before breaching The Wall. To fill his big picture of violence in a strike-torn Pennsylvania steel town, Novelist Warren Eyster starts 50 years back and paints all the ancestors as carefully as the main figures who finally dominate the canvas. Never relenting for so much as a chuckle, Novelist Eyster fastens his eye on personal as well as social change ("Irene had become a better person. She appeared to have learned that sacrifice was not necessarily...