Word: laggard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aviation manufacturers, despite their scant representation at the London shew, have not been laggard in their foreign business. They sold abroad $2,485,070 worth of aircraft, $618,470 of motors, $846,500 of parts during the first five months of this year, according to a government compilation announced last week. The total, $3,990,050, was almost triple the $1,461,328 aviation exports of the same months in 1928. Canada, Mexico and Chile were the largest plane buyers; Germany the largest buyer of motors. Canada of parts...
...Laggard students who flunk and repeat courses cost more to educate than smart ones who pass everything. This is manifestly unfair in a public school-system in which each student should benefit from the same amount of the public funds. W. M. Kern, school superintendent of Walla Walla, Wash., believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money...
Precious. Complete and unassumed inanity is often the means whereby pretty women entice money out of old and stupid men. On this despondent theme, James Forbes (The Famous Mrs. Fair, The Show Shop) constructed this sometimes witty but usually laggard little farce, which was mistakenly provided by Rosalie Stewart, perhaps the most astute among Manhattan's female producers. "Precious" is the name of a girl, in some respects resembling the popular conception of Peaches Browning, who marries and mines a rich elderly man. At length, he grows tired of being the goat and palms "Precious" off on a young...
Ticker. Of the $29,000,000, about one-seventh will go to provide bankers, brokers, speculators, with the fastest stockmarket service in the world. Woefully laggard were the ticker reports of the late great "Hoover Market" (TIME, Nov. 29, et seq.). New tickers, now being installed, will print 500, instead of 300, characters per minute...
Reasons for laggard Latin American communications are 1) lack of capital; 2) lack of initiative, and 3) lack of imagination. Notoriously well-supplied with all three of these desirable attributes are U. S. communication companies. An enterprising executive, therefore, might well ask himself this question: Why should my company not invade this deplorably backward continent, consolidate its scattered, ineffective companies, modernize its lines, link its capitals...