Word: lagging
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...followed for five days by a submarine, which surfaced at night and set off rocket signals to other U-boats. The castaways knew why they were being followed: the sub wanted to nail the ship that rescued them. They made no signal for help until the submarine began to lag behind. Then they hailed a passing freighter, which picked them up and made a getaway...
...rising market, such as the present, retail prices generally lag behind wholesale prices. (Example: a large department store which sold a popular-priced man's shirt at $1.39 a year ago; today it sells at $1.89, but the replacement stock that the store has already bought will have to sell at $2.19 in order to maintain the same markup-and would sell at that price by June, when earlier stocks are exhausted, if there were no intervening price ceiling.) So how will retailers survive if their margin Is drastically cut by having wholesale and retail prices fixed...
...material never approached by their slower brethren, and the final examinations of the former group are often meaningless to even the best of the students forced to pursue the slower course. In theory the sections of this introductory calculus course are never more than three days apart: actually the lag frequently amounts to more than a month...
Whether or not the Hutchins plan should be adopted in its particulars is not too important; the point is that there is something radically wrong with the present structure of liberal education. There is a lag,--a dangerous gap--, between the training that our liberal arts colleges offer, and the demand for that training in the world of business and industry. There used to be a time, at the turn of the century, when a man with four years of cultural background was a rarity. In recent years it has been difficult to get a white-collar job without...
...reasons for this lag between the liberal training and the social demand can be found in the historical development of American education. The great outcry for a popularization of this training that could open up a smooth road to advancement gave rise to thousands of new colleges at the ends of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. By 1930, these factories of liberal teaching were turning more than 1,100,000 men off the curricular assembly lines, and 1,000,000 more from the mushroomed vocational training programs combined with them to glut the job market. With more...