Word: lag
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When heads of colleges are only 130 years in the lag of bright undergraduates, the world need not despair. To Sir William, the honor of this age; to Shelley, the honor of all ages...
Threatened with a potential lag in essential war production, grave-faced officials of WMC, WPB, Selective Service and Army & Navy met hurriedly last week in a Washington office. Their problem: to devise rapid ways & means of giving the nation a new "sense of urgency." The trouble was partly of their own making. For two full years the congenitally optimistic U.S. people had been soaking up the sunny predictions of official and semiofficial spokesmen. Samples...
Following the 1943 boom and the tax-inspired buying of last spring, sales of fur coats are off sharply all over the U.S., currently running about 15% below 1943. Response to the annual August fur promotions was sluggish; and in all parts of the country, volume continued to lag in September and October...
...Patch was still driving northward from the Riviera toward a junction with the northern armies of General Eisenhower. So badly disorganized was the opposition that much of the time it did not know where its own units were. To avoid helping the enemy, Allied commanders let their communiques lag days behind developments in the field...
...just wanted to hear him again and again. Ralph Lang and Jack Gordon had the same to say, only more so. That guy described by Bob Shepard to be "high soprano and rather soft" must have had something. Al Ogden from Jersey explained it with "merely a cultural lag stimulated by movements about the microphone...