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Word: defers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hague talks, helped persuade the Dutch to scale down their demands to 4.3 billion ($1.1 billion). Another tough nut was the future of New Guinea, a large part of which is still held by Dutch troops. Under the compromise which Van Royen had engineered, both parties agreed to defer a decision on New Guinea for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Birth of a Nation | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...united Europe cannot live without the help and strength of Germany," he said. The French and others had suggested that the Assembly defer action on Germany until next year. But, growled Churchill, "that year is too precious to lose. If lost, it might be lost forever. It might not be a year-but the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPEAN UNION: What the Girl Looks Like | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

British men, he noted, no longer take off their hats as they walk by London's Cenotaph (monument to Britain's war dead), or for the passing of a funeral or the flag. Women no longer bow when they meet; autoists no longer defer to skittish horses and their nervous riders on their way to Hyde Park's Rotten Row. Women stand in buses and trains while men and boys sit in comfort (a form of rudeness common even in non-Socialist communities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Quota, The Goddess | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...committee would now defer graduate students in all fields until the completion of all studies, at which time they would again be subject to a draft call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All Grad Students May Gain Draft Deferment | 1/6/1949 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4--A plan to defer college students on the basis of their academic standing has been relayed to Selective Service headquarters, the CRIMSON learned tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Draft May Snub Top I.Q.'s | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

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