Word: lag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novel, Mr. Lincoln's most recent book is rather a disappointment. It is well enough done, but almost to the extent of being overdone, for the story has a tendency to lag. The atmosphere of the plot is so pronounced that the reader from the beginning gains a fairly accurate impression of the ultimate outcome of it, while at the same time the characters are portrayed so sharply that they become almost automatons, and lose the charm of their individuality. The net result is that the reader, in addition to knowing what the story is going to be, knows also...
...Saturday Evening Post (2,795,388 copies); The Ladies Home Journal (2,498,310); Country Gentleman (1,459,154). Crowell challenges with Collier's (1,327,875) ; Woman's Home Companion (2,235,488) ; American Magazine (2,162,252). Crowell's three leading magazines lag behind Curtis's by a mere 1,000,000 circulation...
Doctors now realize the value of simple, explanatory articles on cancer, heart disease, tuberculosis, pneumonia, rheumatic fever, quackery, and so on (TIME, May 3, 17, June 21, Aug. 30, Sept. 13 Oct. 4, 18, 25, Jan. 17, 31, Feb. 7, 14, etc.). But a few doctors yet lag with their cooperation. These men President Wendell C. Phillips of the American Medical Association scolded last week, when he opened a conference of 50 voluntary and public health organizations at Chicago. Said he: "The medical profession should throw off its mask of reticence and its shrinking attitude toward reasonable publicity concerning health...
...buoyancy of the presentation. In other people's productions of Twelfth Night, the complicated fortunes of Viola, the shipwrecked maid, in love with the Duke of Illyria in love with the proud Olivia in love with the shipwrecked maid impersonating her twin brother are too frequently allowed to lag into slow comedy only partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy in a gay spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation. Sometimes the humor is even flavored with slapstick, as in the case of Egon Brecher...
...case this change definitely goes into effect it is feared that, with the matches being held only once every four years in each country, interest in them will greatly lag. Harvard has in her strong material this year an added reason for wishing to continue the old system. K. S. Pfaffman '24 is coming to Cambridge this week to confer with W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, captain of the tennis team, on the possibilities of arranging the trip, especially of persuading Yale to continue the old policy...