Word: lags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bumps, No Fouls. Close by, as the horses lined up for the start, sat Millionaire Cattleman Robert Kleberg, who had passed up a chance to see his great horse Assault win the $40,000 Grey Lag Handicap at New York's Jamaica track. He had posted his $15,000 on Miss Princess, the race track horse he had converted to quarter horsing. Unlike Shue Fly, who is really a glorified range horse and bred for short racing, Princess was royally sired (by Kentucky Derby winner Bold Venture). She had once flashed dizzy speed on regulation race tracks-but couldn...
After the traditional time lag, basketball's nation-wide growth the popularity are finally being reflected at Harvard. The latest in a series of moves designed to build New England's own game into the College's third-ranking major sport came last week with Coach Bill Barclay's announcement that basketball's first spring practice would begin shortly after the season's close. These sessions will be by invitation only, to compete as little as possible with the spring talent search conducted by Harlow and the spring sports. None the less, they were hailed by Barclay as a welcome...
...shrewd paste-up of the clipping from Corwin's recording tape, connected by thin strips of narrative and commentary. In trying to give a serious, upright report, Corwin occasionally let his show lag, repeat itself, get incoherent. But at its many high points One World Flight had a sudden, heady power. The high points were all excerpts from Corwin's wonderfully perceptive, intimate sound track...
Labor & Art. "And do you know what's behind this lag in experiment over here? Your radio union, the American Federation of Radio Artists. To put together a fine radio program takes time, but the union's rigid wages-&-hours regulations make it impossible-or at least financially prohibitive-to spend enough time rehearsing. . . . While union regulations provide for strikes in case wages fall too low, they make no mention of any action in case the station's artistic standards sink...
...great political questions of this generation has been the influence of econimies on polities. Here, the department has shown a lag that can the traced to the overall interest of the faculty in other phases of the work plus the disinclination of any University to apoint left-wingers. At a time when control of the economy is the hottest potato around, it is unfortunate that only one course deals with the political approach to the issue, and then only partially. A part of the answer may lie in the left-wing leanings that seem to pervade the thinking of many...