Word: lag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court gives President Roosevelt reasonable assurance that he can now carry out his program unhampered by constant judicial interference. The United States needs a high court that can adjust legal theory to economic reality in the face of rapidly changing conditions. We can no longer afford the cultural lag that has so long afflicted the judiciary...
This is a high price to pay, for it means that, in order to control Chinese territory permanently, Japan must develop it and speed industrialization. And yet if industrialization goes forward, will Chinese nationalism lag far behind? Remember that Manchuria had been Chinese for hardly more than a generation, whereas North China is the oldest inhabited part of the country...
...this instance, the lag of commercial exploitation behind laboratory research was remarkably short. Indolebutyric acid, one of the Boyce Thompson stimulants, has already been placed on the market by several manufacturers as a root stimulator for cuttings. Merck Chemical Co. sells it as "Hormodin A" at a price of $2 for 15 cubic centimetres, which, diluted upwards of 6,000 times, is enough for about 1,500 cuttings. Pennsylvania Chemical Corp. markets it under the name of "Auxilin" at a price of $1 per half ounce. The prospect is that in ten years the nurseryman who neglects to stimulate...
Excellent photography, direction, and acting contribute to the general merit of the picture. In its moving panorama, such figures as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, and a certain Mr. Boswell all occupy the stage for one brief moment. The action, it must be admitted, is slow, but never does interest lag. Only two defects can be noticed--a drawn out conclusion tending toward anti-climax, and the uncertain Margaret Mitchell ending...
Over long periods these indices reflect the totality of commodity price changes, but they often lag in revealing price trends over periods of less than a year. For daily distribution by the United Press, a more responsive index is compiled by Dun & Bradstreet from the spot prices of 30 basic commodities. This roster of prices (with 1930-32 as 100) was at 68.51 in March 1933, at 129.96 last October, and by last week was up to 144.62. The Associated Press compiles its own index of 35 commodities for its member newspapers. From a depression low of 41.44 (February...