Word: lags
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When so great an institution as Vassar discards the last of its compulsory courses as it has done, public education should not lag. The trend towards excellence in the best skills and arts and sciences cannot be ignored. Boston Traveler...
Some of the teachers wondered if they would ever get their back pay. The years had passed and one-third of them had grown old and died. But last week brought a payday. That was in Catamarca, Argentina. Not the amount of arrears ($90,000) but the time-lag made news. The Government ordered 15% of all revenue earmarked for them and the teachers of Catamarca began collecting their salaries...
Freshmen Also Lag...
...Germanic Museum to obtain a little more polish for their cultural veneer, gape dumbly at the exhibit there now on display. So foreign to them is a spirit better constituted to create than to jape, to judge, not jape, to direct, not to drift, to lead, not to lag, that they apprehend only their own failure to understand the inspiring evidence of the German spirit placed before them...
...there is also unmistakable evidence that Germany has been making large importations of war materials and is able to turn her splendid industrial plant to war purposes in a very short time. With Germany rapidly getting back to her prewar military footing, the rest of the world does not lag far behind. France has just completed a vast chain of fortifications across her Eastern frontier; the armies of Balkanized Southern and Central Europe have reached a new peak in efficiency and numbers. Japan has embarked upon a program of naval and military expansion which threatens to bankrupt the government...