Word: lag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other indexes like the New York Times', Business Week's, Barron's-using fewer and what are considered more sensitive components-report on business activity with less time lag, manage to agree closely with the F. R. B. curve...
...Harvard campaign headquarters at Wadsworth House announced that the campaign in the University is way ahead of schedule and progressing nicely despite the apparent lag of contributions to the Greater Boston Fund which has necessitated an extension of the drive...
...human problems that as a reporter I have ever confronted." Coolidge, he concluded, was "a perfect throwback to the more primitive days of the Republic . . . ? waxwork figure of a Puritan boy, out of the social museum that is rural Vermont." and remained throughout his career a 100-year time lag personified. Most of the evidence-Coolidge's penny-pinching, picklish personality, Yankee cunning, sentimentality, provincialism-fits Author White's thesis. Placed against the teeming, speculative post-War U. S., Coolidge offers one of the most ironic studies in U. S. politics and Author White makes the most...
...International Master Ladies' Hairdressers Association and the Coiffure Guild of New York, supporters of the upswing hair style, attacked Greta Garbo's pageboy bob as a cultural lag, called it "wholly unsuited for wear by her or by the women of this country...
...nine-page survey with charts. Its big fact: In the first seven months of 1938 industrial production was lower than for any corresponding period since 1933 but construction exceeded the corresponding figure in every recent year except 1937. And in the second quarter of this year the building lag behind 1937 was cut from...