Word: delay
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...colleges, provided they can witness it quickly and inexpensively; and those who man the boats ought to defer to their friends' comfort and convenience, even irrespective of the fact that by thus rigorously ruling out all sideshows or subsidiary contests, which may tend to make confusion or delay, they will best subserve their own individual interests as oarsmen...
...Advocate fails to appreciate their feelings, for their withdrawal from the boat now is not "fickleness." If the Advocate refers to the Executive Committee it shows an ignorance of the delicate business they had in hand. The only fault that can be found with the Executive Committee is their delay in sending a private letter to Cornell explaining our position. To have made public the many complications with which they were at the time embarrassed would have been making matters worse, and we do not think they are to blame for keeping silent until they had arrived at some definite...
...order that the sentiments of the various Clubs in America may be ascertained and the Consular Corps advised thereof, it is very desirable that such as may think favorably of the plan shall communicate with me with the least possible delay...
...delay in the arrival of the text-books in Phil. 5 is severely testing the moral endurance of the section...
...arrived, and all that has yet been done is to remove the front of the box. If the authorities have got thoroughly rested after this arduous operation, it would be desirable that they should proceed to the next step. I suppose, of course, that nobody is responsible for the delay, but would suggest that there must be some individual, or body of individuals, who would have the power to make the desired change...