Word: lag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That 25% more women go to the dentist than men-because of the "cultural lag of the male and the female's natural esthetic desires...
...lag of about 200 students in the enrollment of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, expected here because of the draft and the national defense effort is responsible for the rule...
...dress, ownership of automobiles, and other needless red tape which plagues the student at most prep schools and at too many colleges. A citizen in the Harvard community is regarded as such. Yet, though the liquor and cut liberalizations were put through here long ago, the parietal rules still lag behind those of Yale and Princeton. At present a Student Council committee is investigating the logic which distinguishes parietal discipline from supervision over the student's other private affairs at college...
...lag in aircraft and engine production was easier to see than the intricacies of such production, the technical strivings to make better planes and make them faster. Delayed Army camps made headlines, exposing stupidities and mistakes; the camps that ran on schedule were as unnoticed as the majors, colonels, contractors, carpenters who somehow surmounted Army bureaucracy, bad weather, bad unions, bad luck, and got their particular jobs done on time. Many a "lag" was in fact no lag in actual production or planning, but a confession that somebody had promised the impossible...
...maintain that it is the work of one Paul Bunyan who can be seen slipping casually through the Streets of Cambridge every Saturday evening after the football games; there is still a third school of thought, originating from the Sociology department, which insists that the monument indicates a cultural lag in the minds of those who accepted it and placed it in the Yard...