Word: deferable
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TIME must continue to defer to the longstanding wish of Benjamin F. Boswell that he, his sanctum and his bookish hobbies shall not be made the subject of publicity...
...members of the Harvard team had been notified at the beginning of the week that they had been selected to compete, but the authorities had intended to defer public announcement of their names until after the contest in order to avoid publicity which might be detrimental to the competitors. In view of the fact, however, that the Yale team had been announced it was decided yesterday that to put the teams on a completely equal footing the names of the Harvard men should also be released...
Swiftly, now, the elastic League machinery resumes its normal course. The Commission votes to defer additional debate on the Soviet proposal until it meets again, in March. Litvinov has to be content with this, and seems not unhappy amid such pleasant surroundings. He is receiving scores of congratulatory messages. One is from Mrs. Henry Villard,* Chairman of the Manhattan Women's Peace Society. Cables she: "Thrilled by Russia's forward step toward world peace, the only one possible if we would really have true peace between nations...
...human rights. The real enemies of our institutions are nomen like Sacco and Vanzettil whose criticisms are outspoken and can be met, while their constructions are Utoplan. Our real enemies are those who defend the indefensible, who refuse to acknowledge errors obvious to all thoughtful men, and who defer to lesser interests that primary concern for justice without which no law is worthy of respect and no government worthy of obedience
...meeting of the Student Council held last night, W. G. Saltonstall '28 was appointed chairman of the committee to arrange for the Senior room drawings on the Yard. A petition that boxing be made a minor sport was considered, but it was decided to defer action till the sport was further developed through class and intramural teams...