Word: lag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Despite governmental bumbling and individuals like Reader Henry, the U.S. has given the hungry world millions of tons of foodstuffs (example: 9,000,000 tons of wheat) since war's end. Shipments still lag behind promises-but they are catching...
...faith must not lag behind contagious diseases in spreading." This was Toyohiko Kagawa's new watchword for the Japanese faithful. He gave it to the 3,500 delegates of the Christian churches of Japan who had assembled on the windswept campus of Tokyo's bombed...
...utilities lag. Example: Commonwealth & Southern turned in $20,488.698-up nearly $5 million...
...Council had pointed out that most places of entertainment opened at eight, thereby leaving a student no place to go in the time lag after supper, but the Masters pointed out that a couple, having left the House for supper "might as well stay out." To the argument advanced by the Council that the proposed change would not violate the principles already established by the Oxford Card system, the Masters replied merely that--with the College working its way back to its traditional position, no further relaxation was desirable...
...loran is the measurement of this time lag, which the receiver does automatically in micro-seconds (millionths of a second). For each time lag, a special chart shows a "line of position." The plane's navigator knows at once that he is somewhere on this line. Then he tunes in a second pair of master-and-slave stations operating on a different frequency, and gets a second line of position. His location on the chart is the point where the two lines intersect. A skilled operator can complete the whole problem in less than six minutes...