Word: lags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cultural Lag. In Spokane, Leo Sol-Louse, an Indian, explained to police the wound on his forehead: a couple of Canadian braves had tried to scalp...
...Politics has a long and dishonorable tradition of coming out late, but the present lag is something special. . . . There is only one reason for it: Politics has been a one-man magazine, and the man (myself) has of late been feeling stale, tired, disheartened, and-if you like-demoralized...
Summing up, the underlying causes of our inflation can be attributed to: swollen purchasing power flowing from full employment and higher incomes; the continual lag of purchasable goods and food behind demand; the aggravating intangible of national selfishness; the absence of anti-inflationary taxation or monetary policies; and finally, the sapping drain on the economy caused by export of goods without imports in exchange. The interplay of these factors causes the present state of prices...
...Boston teams struggle to share what little artificial ice there is. Wrestling, attracted crowds last winter which bordered on Indoor Building basketball turnouts. Bingham attributed this to the popularity of Coach Clarence (chief) Boston, and to such crowd pleasing grapplers as heavy-weight Pete Fuller. Meanwhile, swimming and baseball lag far behind. "Baseball hasn't paid since the 20's," said Bingham. "We need to draw 12,000 to 15,000 for the Yale game and sometimes needed extra seats, but now we barely take in enough money to pay the ticket takers...
...thought, was facing a task even graver than its job in wartime. Said famed Psychoanalyst William C. Menninger, the new A.P.A. president-elect: "No longer is the world cursed with smallpox or cholera or yellow fever. . . . We have learned to eliminate space and to annihilate people, but we still lag far behind in learning how to get along with each other. . . . Is there any hope that medicine, through its Cinderella, psychiatry, can step forward to offer its therapeutic effort to a world full of unhappiness and maladjustment...