By Tim E Campbell Tales From the Grove â Joseph M. Ewing brought his large family to western Navarro County sometime in the 1890s. His oldest son James W. T. Ewing aka âUncle Jimâ...
lag noun [C/U]. âº a âdelay in the âperiod of âtime in which âevents âhappen: [C] There is often a lag between âbecoming âinfected and the first âsigns of the âillness. (Definition of lag from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press).
Culture lag is defined as the time between the appearance of a new material invention and the making of appropriate adjustments in corresponding area of non-material culture. This time is often long. It was over fifty years, for example, after the typewriter was invented before it was used systematically in offices.