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Despite a last-minute lag in interest, the three civilian Houses went almost 500 per cent over their quota in the Fourth War Loan drive which ended Wednesday at noon. The inter-House competition was swept by Lowell, which rolled up a total of $7,610.60 to more than double the total of second-place Adams and to go almost $660 above the combined totals of its two rivals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOND TOTALS REACH $14,562 AS DRIVE ENDS | 2/18/1944 | See Source »

...Negro Problem, he concludes, is grim but not hopeless. It "represents nothing more and nothing less than a century-long lag of public morals. In principle, the Negro problem was settled long ago; in practice, the solution is not effectuated. The Negro in America has not yet been given the elemental civil and political rights of formal democracy. . . . This anachronism constitutes the contemporary 'problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Dilemma | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...speed, altitude and trail (air and ground lag) had already been set on the sight indicators. As the target came in view, Arpaia's problem was to calculate in a flash the correct dropping angle, make this final adjustment. Then he hunched tensely over the rubber-padded sight telescope, deftly fingering the control knobs. The target crawled across the sight until the two cross hairs were directly on it; at that moment Arpaia engaged the synchronizer and the sight did the rest. A string of white-painted bombs hurtled from Mischief Maker's belly. As they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Vertical Sharpshooter | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...result, according to a Bendix spokesman: "The new compass will not go off its reading when the plane dives or climbs rapidly ; it will not lag or overshoot during a turn, and it will not oscillate or hunt back and forth in rough weather." It is also usable in regions where a magnetic compass breaks down completely-near the North & South Poles. Because of the weak magnetic currents there, a magnetic compass is useless within 1,200 miles of either Pole; the new compass, much more sensitive, works as close as 300 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Truer Compass | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...least, such a program can measurably shorten the crucial time lag between war and peace production, by making a sizable number of employers blueprint their conversion to peace in advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POSTWAR: Limited Objective | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

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