Word: static
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel's popularity is greatly responsible for the decline of narrative poetry, but novels have failed to use the story with true success, Muir said. "Almost all novels introduce space as well as time and thus replace living images with static descriptions of objects," Muir explained...
...Cambridge, at least, the proverbial fast-disappearing pedestrian may soon be joined by a fast-disappearing motorist if cars multiply at the present extravagant rate while parking and traffic facilities remain virtually static...
Stars of the show were Britain's newest jet engines. De Havilland's Gyron has 15,000 Ibs. of static thrust, is claimed to be the most powerful in the world. The Rolls-Royce Conway, a "bypass jet" with 13.000 Ibs. of thrust (TIME, July 4), was shown at Farnborough for the first time...
...static" showing of airplane components is not what made Farnborough famous. The general public, admitted for three days, came in hundreds of thousands to see airplanes do breathtaking stunts...
...competition. But few of them feel that competition is being hurt-yet. The indications are just the opposite; mergers have made more banks than ever capable of competing. Said Chase Manhattan's Chairman John J. McCloy before the House Antitrust Subcommittee: "Any attempt to hold banks in a static mold, impervious to the dynamic forces reshaping the rest of society, would be to render them less useful and gradually impotent...