Word: defers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With this in mind I am able to declare that the American Government as a practical matter is disposed to defer to the views of the majority of those countries whose land forces constitute their chief military interest, and in the draft convention before us, to accept their ideas in the matter of trained reserves...
...radio in its possibilities. He further stated that he had just received notice from the Vitaphone Corporation stating that it would be necessary to delay his tentative engagement with them for some months, since their equipment was undergoing such radical changes every day that they had decided to defer all engagements until the machines could be more adapted to the new inventions which were constantly altering them...
...conflict with the usual custom the University football team will defer the election of next year's captain to mid winter, when the first meeting of Coach Horween and his squad since the Yale game will take place. The team picture likewise will not be taken until that meeting, which is expected to occur about January...
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...