Word: delay
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have not yet sat for their pictures. It takes at least two weeks to get a finished picture after one has set. The dilatory seniors are urged to sit at once to make the Portfolio complete. Those seniors who have not yet chosen their proofs should do so without delay, so that finished pictures may be ready...
...game began at 3 o'clock with Rand at the bat, but a moment later a shower sprang up which caused a delay of ten minutes, but lessened the intense heat...
...public is in a way unfortunate. True, it has rebounded much to Harvard's credit, and increased her reputation as a seat of learning, that she has been victorious in the only intellectual contests of the time; but the concentration of interest in the public debates tends to delay the recognition of the scholarly spirit which is cultivated in private by a steadily increasing body of students. People think that the undergraduate interest in debate is largely, if not wholly, stimulated by the prospect of intercollegiate contests; that it is effect rather than cause. They forget to regard...
...beginning of the war Japan was ready to carry on the war without delay. Her men were well drilled and familiar with European and American methods. The Chinese, however, are not soldiers, but traders and merchants. The army is without system and is full of corruption. Japan, with a population one-tenth that of China, has an available army nearly as large. Her navy is much smaller and consists entirely of cruisers...
...urge the necessity for financial support. The management here is at present wholly without funds, and the demands of collectors should therefore be willingly met. The receipts from the game itself are not to be counted upon entirely for covering expenses. Ninety-six men will surely realize that any delay on their part in fulfilling to the uttermost the conditions which have been made with Yale, is not to be tolerated. We believe that the junior managers will find their task an easy...