Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smaller engine. In acceleration tests (a mile run from a standing start) the 300-C set a new record of 86.873 m.p.h. The hefty 300-h.p., 364-cu. in. Buick Century ran second in the flying mile with a creditable 130.766 m.p.h., but in acceleration it was a sluggish also-ran. A supercharged 300-h.p. Ford ran third in the flying mile with 130.058 m.p.h., was third in acceleration (85.006 m.p.h.) behind the Chrysler and a 335-h.p. Mercury (85.511 m.p.h.). An Oldsmobile 98 (312 h.p., 371 cu. in.) lumbered along in tenth place at 127.074 m.p.h. In acceleration...
...bottleneck was at the Alton (Ill.) lock, just below the point where the Illinois River, fed in part from Lake Michigan by way of the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, joins the sluggish Mississippi in its 2,350-mile sweep to the Gulf. There, as many as 200 Chicago-bound barges were stalled at one time this fall as the water in the lower sill, diminished by the four-year drought in the Mississippi Valley (TIME, Dec. 17), fell from its normal (9 ft.) level to a bottom-scraping 6 ft., thus forcing the carriers to lighten their...
...unmannerly man-eaters dined on the commander's crew when their destroyer sank in the early days of World War II, and now Mature is grimly determined to make every carchariid in creation pay the reckoning. Assigned to accelerate research on shark repellents. Mature moves in on a sluggish school of scientists like a shovelnose on shrimp. Everything from poison to ultrasonics has been tried, but only copper acetate and octopus juice seem to have much effect on the brutes. However, neither of these is strong enough. What...
...sluggish Crimson team did an adequate job offensively, with Walt Stahura and Babe Simourian once again standing out. Each scored a touchdown, and each played almost the whole game, although Stahura had to be taken out at the end with a knee injury...
...hard as it may be for Harvard fans to believe, the Crimson was not upset by little Tufts on Saturday. Instead, the well-balanced Jumbos, as poised in the second half as the most experienced Ivy League football team, soundly defeated a sluggish-looking Crimson eleven...