Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Automatic pilots are in common use in such large, slow-reacting airplanes as airliners and bombers, but none of the conventional models was alert enough to fly a jet fighter. None was small enough either. A jet fighter is practically "solid"; it is hard to find a vacant cubic inch to stow additional equipment...
...longert distances it was no contest. Dave Cairns was never pushed in the mile and won by 30 yards in a slow 4:37.9. Paul Judy came up fast to take third in the event, behind Jumbo Angy Farina. John Pankey followed Dave Gregory's smooth pacing in the two-mile and kicked ahead in the last...
...this didn't slow down the freshmen. A group of candidates organized a torchlight parade that circled the Yard to the tune of brass bands until unsympathetic Yard police chased them to a standing concert in front of the Union. A fake assassination, complete with caps, ketchup, and bodyguards was held after lunch one day, followed by a dragon slaying...
Donations to the nation's colleges have been slow since the end of the war. Even Harvard's reserves have "diminished sharply" in the last few years, according to a University official. Inflation has forced prices upward to the point where materials have become unavailable to a large number of smaller schools...
After the football team had only narrowly defeated the Carlisle Indians, FDR wrote, "They (the undergraduates) have grown somewhat weary of the slow, listless play of certain men in the line, who seem to think that their weight is a sufficient certificate of admission to membership on a University team...