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Word: lag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however do justice to her and its success is due entirely to her interpretation. It is Miss Cornell alone that saves a slow moving and dull first act from being a complete failure. The action speeds up however and the last two acts do not let the interest lag a moment...

Author: By O. E. F., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/24/1929 | See Source »

...staging does not lag behind the music in effectiveness. There are only three changes of scene, but the varying lights and groupings make all three powerful, especially the few minutes after the picnic, in a heavy, blue-green palmetto jungle, when the exile Crown meets his erst while woman Bess and keeps her until it is too late for her to return to Porgy...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/23/1929 | See Source »

...rise in oils. Chief among these other influences is Arthur W. Cutten who has gone into Sinclair Consolidated as Blair & Co. have gone into Prairie oil. Always a bull, never a bear, Arthur W. Cutten has done more than any other individual to make the overload stock ticker lag far behind the market and Prairie Pipe. He has been in Radio Corp., in Montgomery Ward, in many another of the soaring stocks that have done most to create the present buying market. In a bull market, among many bulls, Bull Cutten ranks king of the herd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Blair-Rockefeller | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...should consider the welfare of the knights of the pen who daily make possible clear-cut analyses or accurate exposition of the events so vitally important to many of those unable to attend in person. The cost of alteration in comparison with the confidence that the Union does not lag in the move no matter how great will be moderatement toward better press boxes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE YOUR JOB | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...runways each a half mile long, a postoffice building, radio station, meteorological station besides the usual hangars, administration buildings and machine shop. Eventually an elevated highway without crossings will be constructed towards New York Harbor so that plane mail can be rushed into the city in 33 minutes. The lag now is nearly an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Airports | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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