Word: lag
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...changes in the state laws and in the University's attitude, but it will come; it will be dictated by the kind of club dining which students have been led to expect in the Houses. Until that happy day, the University may follow one of two roads. It may lag behind, play safe, and cling to its 'scutcheen. Or it may take the lead in teaching its students temperance by allowing them to indulge in quiet, legal drinking with their meals. One is inclined to hope that yesterday's manifesto will not commit the University to the former path...
...flaw which Dr. Abbot regretted was an occasional unexpected lag in expected variations, ascribed to irregularity in sunspot development. With long-range weather forecasting as his great goal, he is now preparing temperature & precipitation predictions "for numerous stations in all parts of the world for many years in advance...
...Recovery Administration gave everything," he declared. "There is authority to do everything that ever has been suggested to raise farm prices and if none of the indirect methods work, there is authority to tax the whole public and turn the proceeds over to agriculture to make up for any lag in parity of prices...
...tarry on details because: 1) cotton mills have lately been boosting production to finish as much goods as possible at cheap rates before their costs go up; 2) on July 17 it will be 31 days since the Recovery Administration began to function; 3) big industries were beginning to lag in submitting their codes to Washington for approval...
...statisticians last week could throw cold water on the fact that an $800,000,000 industry will have to be largely rebuilt. While increased grain consumption may lag till the beer business gets back into stride, during that time the rebuilding and re-equipment business is going to be at its best. Last week F. W. Dodge Corp., trusted reporters on the building trades, set forth that $58,000,000 will be spent on breweries during the next four months in 37 States east of the Rockies, probably $65,000,000 in the nation...