Word: lag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absurd and humiliating that American children of equal intelligence lag two years behind their more favored contemporaries in the better class of European schools...
Henry Zoelly, a Swiss engineer, declared that the steam locomotive is lag ging "pitifully" in scientific progress and foresaw the development of a turbo- locomotive...
Yesterday's scrimmage did not lag at the start. After being unable to gain, the seconds kicked to the University's 30-yard line. On its first play Team A fumbled. The ball was recovered by Donaldson, another second team veteran, who quickly broke away from the mass of players, who had closed in, and carried the ball over the goal line in a 40-yard...
London bankers are in somewhat of a quandry just now. The Dawes Plan proposes to put Germany back on a gold basis, and consequently make the German mark a gold par currency. The British do not relish seeing the pound sterling lag behind in this race to return to the gold standard, as it might mean the enforced abandonment of her former international trade and financial position. The problem therefore is-how soon can the pound get back to par and a gold basis...
...August Belmont's impressive three-year-old, Ladkin, easily disposed of Sinclair's Mad Play, and was hailed as the year's best colt. Ladkin's time, 1.49 4-5 for the mile-and-an-eighth, was but 4/5 of a second outside of Grey Lag's course record, set last year under identical weight (123 Ibs.). Moreover, it was said that Jockey Maiben pulled Ladkin up through the last sixteenth...