Word: lag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...received careful consideration: A period of inactivity covering time lag...
...shook his head. 'That's funny. He was having as good a time as anybody up there-and the first thing I knew he was gone.' I looked at Herb with admiration. ... He was so calm, so unperturbed. . . . The dinner bell rang. . . . 'Don't lag, Herb,' said [Father], 'and don't forget to wash your hands.' Herb listened at the door until he was sure Father was out of earshot, and then turned to me and said, 'Joe never knew what...
...market trends frequently have followed London's, after a time lag of varying duration. From war's beginning until last winter, London and New York quotations moved almost as one (see chart). Both markets slid sharply during the Lowlands campaign, hit bottom after Dunkirk and France's fall. Then began a slow recovery, interrupted by another decline with the Nazi spring successes...
...making a magnificent defense effort in accordance with a carefully conceived defense program. . . . However . . . the effort is not nearly strenuous enough and ... the program is not at all clear and well developed. Behind the talk of billions for defense lies the plain and simple fact that funds appropriated lag behind our needs for military materials, and that production lags behind the appropriations. It is urgent that we see more clearly . . . move more rapidly and decisively. . . ." > "It would seem clear that the way to defeat an enemy is to gain a superiority in arms and equipment over him. The fact...
...Behrman, produced by The Playwrights' Co.). Playwright Behrman is one of the most adult living playwrights and his new seriocomedy tackles a grown-up theme-the fact that the social achievements of the human race are so far behind its technical development. He studies this social lag in the personality of a widower, Dr. Axton Talley (Philip Merivale), who is a brilliant surgeon of bodies but scarcely even aware of emotional anatomy. He has nothing but anger for his daughter's adolescent radicalism, nothing but contempt for his son's inability to stomach the medical school dissecting...