Word: delay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...loss was largely due to the delay in getting water on the blaze when a hydrant failed to work. Not until almost an hour after the alarm sounded did the firemen succeed in cutting through the roof and getting an effective stream on the blaze...
...free nation when the Senate in prolonged night session gave ratification to the President's message and declared that by hostile acts a state of war exists between the United States and the German Empire. The loyalty of the House is unquestioned; it will not in the least delay to second what the Senate has clearly, though tardily, said...
...enemies may be blinded by the Senate's unfortunate delay, and construe that hesitancy as weakness. They should know that no group of head-strong and coldly disloyal men may make the greatest of republics pusillanimous. Those Senators who raised their clamorous voices against war are proof not of our indecision, but of our true freedom. In more autocratic countries they would have been hanged...
...Hague Convention of 1907 requires that "the existence of a state of war must be notified to neutral powers without delay." During the present war, declarations previous to hostilities have been the rule...
...article in yesterday's New York Times, Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80 sets forth clearly the facts of the case concerning the German merchantmen interned in our harbors. At the end of his argument he comes to the conclusion that the United States should without delay take over all such vessels...