Word: lag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mills were held down to the pace of old-fashioned brass foundries integrated with them. Meanwhile, war orders piled up at the same time as ordinary post-Labor Day orders from the auto companies, who want prompt delivery and plenty of it. This brass bottleneck caused copper sales to lag, particularly because brass manufacturers bought far ahead last May (TIME, May 15); and England, willing enough to buy processed brass, is not wasting her precious foreign exchange buying U. S. raw copper for her own mills, when she can obtain it from South Africa...
...drum. The light beam is split. One part is conducted over a long course (185 yd.), the other over a short course (about 2 yd.). Both are reflected back to a photoelectric cell. On the beam which has been over the long course the brightness peaks (nicks) lag somewhat behind those on the other. From the amount of this lag the length of one section is calculated...
...that time their relative strength to Japan will be just about what it is now: Britain has an estimated 2,000,000 tons of seagoing strength, the U. S. 1,750,000, Japan about 1,200,000-roughly a ratio of 100-85-58.* Except for the slight lag of the U. S. behind Britain (which has always existed), this is the famous 5-5-3 ratio set by the Washington Naval Treaty way back in 1922. The Law of Naval Races having held good for 17 years, the next six are not apt to see it broken...
...Canada during the next three months. Dr. Buchman revealed that his Groupers had lately induced British milk dealers to place the initials M. R. A. upon 4,000,000 milk-bottle tops. Cried the founder: "I'm sure America will do as much. America will never lag behind in milk-bottle tops...
...Norvo's band to rank with Jimmy Dorsey and Bob Crosby as the best white band in the country. Norvo himself is superb, plays delicate expressive solos that cut right through you while at the same time managing to yield fine swing. The band itself has that colored lag, playing just behind the beat, that is so essential to good swing, while at the same time playing with a precision that few colored bands ever reach. Ray Noonan (trombone), Stewy McKay (tenor sax), and Buddy Christian (drums) all contribute to the fine jazz which this band turns out. Compare Norvo...