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...intramural matches. The contests ought, however, to the informal without being desultory. If one House produces half a team for a scheduled game, the game is necessarily cancelled, as a House contest at least. Without a good measure of regularity in the games, interest in them is bound to lag...
...like himself) whose weekly chore before the electric-blower era was to sweat and grunt over the pumphandle in the organ loft. Theirs was the duty, indispensable to organist and choir, of keeping a crude pressure-gauge above the danger mark. On rare occasions, dreadfully unforgettable, the pumper might lag from exhaustion "and wreck a full throated anthem or a shrill soprano solo in the agonized screeches of the high pipes and the guttural grunts of the low ones as the wind suddenly expired." Least penalty for such dereliction: dismissal in disgrace. Reward for faithful service varied from nothing (except...
George Bernard Shaw is fond of saying that he was born about 50 years ahead of his time. In London last week he told newsmen of the Institute of Journalism that their minds function far behind their time. Their backwardness of comprehension he called "time lag." Just as Great Britain long failed to recognize the United States as a permanent Republic and George Washington as anything but "one of the blackest scoundrels that ever existed," so today "the press has not yet recognized that the [Russian] revolution has taken place," said...
...astronomers at first concluded that the moon was off schedule but subsequent checks on other bodies proved earth to be at fault. Gratifying to clock manufacturers was his statement that the slight variation has some method. Earth would, said Dr. Brown, run fast for a number of years, then lag behind. Sudden changes in rotation rate were noted in 1897 and 1917. Causes for such behavior are unknown...
...however do justice to her and its success is due entirely to her interpretation. It is Miss Cornell alone that saves a slow moving and dull first act from being a complete failure. The action speeds up however and the last two acts do not let the interest lag a moment...