Word: laggard
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...major work by a great French novelist is making its first appearance in English. But because of curious circumstances and the laggard energy for which publishers are noted, there has been a slight delay of 115 years between French composition and English publication. This is how it happened...
...order the door of his office taken down and carted away. A friendly, floppy-gaited man, he wanted everybody to feel free to walk right in and talk to him. Tilted back in his swivel chair at his cluttered desk, he would listen patiently to laggard students, troubled facultymen, Michigan farmers and taxpayers. The purpose of a land-grant college, he said, should be "service to all people." Last week, after nine years, M.S.C. had reason to know what 47-year-old "Uncle John" Hannah meant...