Word: deferent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power field but by no means control. Partner Whitney: "It has not always been J. P. Morgan & Co.'s policies that have been adopted by a long shot. I don't mean that there was a knock-down and drag-out fight but we often defer to the operating heads in matters of policy...
Voting unanimously last night to defer the election of the majority of its members to the end of the Senior year, the undergraduate body of Phi Beta Kappa took an epechal step toward dissipating the belief of many that a gold key does not mean intellectual power, but merely the ability to grind out high course marks. Although any system of selecting men upon whom to confer recognition of scholastic achievement is necessarily fallible, that based primarily on course marks has, at least at Harvard, been demonstrated inadequate and unjust...
...regulation. As for those who disapprove of the consumption of alcohol within whatever limits, one would have thought that an experiment of ten years duration had discredited them rather thoroughly. To such groups as the intransigent drys and the anti-nicotine coterie the University is surely not compelled to defer...
...problems raised for Chicago will be far deeper than plans for an appropriate cortege, or for a day of universal mourning. Tumult and shouting can only defer the day when she will have to scan anew the list of aspirants to her highest office. Charles E. Merriam will, somewhat more impatiently after these twenty years, demand again that a government now impecunious must pass to the expert, and to the honest; and at the University there will be reawakened vistas of regulatory grandeur. Clicking receivers will carry tentative promises of patronage to the Mayor's revived political opponents...
Compared to the ugly word "default" such terms as "invite" and "defer" are highly attractive. The Chamber, groggy after 14 hours debate, voted 380-to-57 to "invite" and to "defer," then yawned and stumbled off to beds. Dog-tired M. Herriot was already asleep, snored all morning while President Lebrun searched for his successor...