Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...races at Havre de Grace this spring. In both he exhibited his sire's famed trait of taking the lead at the start, keeping it to the finish. Like Man o' War, War Admiral has a slightly peevish disposition. Much of the eight-minute delay at last week's start was caused by his reluctance to stay in his stall...
Last year interest centered particularly in Harvard Hall around the menace from fire and the daily delay in getting out after classes due to congestion in the narrow staircase. Student feeling, as voiced in CRIMSON editorials, learned from Cambridge City Hall that though the building might possibly be a firetrap, ample windows presented safety avenues for an emergency...
That juvenile notion may pass undisputed when the boys hold combat among themselves, staging high jinks in their own Yard. But it counts for naught when the battling children disrupt traffic, delay the homeward course of tired workers, endanger human life and destroy hard-earned property. Such antics deserve no indulgence. They should have sharpest repression and punishment by the police and the courts, and sternest rebuke by collegiate authorities, with quick and permanent expulsion of proved ring-leaders among the offenders...
That originated in the Dowland Line offices in London, "in chancelleries, exchanges and banks of a few great capital cities." In London the decrepit condition of the Hestia was counted on to delay her cargo of sugar until the market was suitably rigged. When Captain Doughty arrived a week early. Sir John Dowland cursed and sent the Hestia off for a risky North Atlantic crossing...
...illness, strike, riot, civil commotion or act of God, not even the profit motive was responsible for the long delay in Senator Bill Smathers' taking office. During the interval he was drawing $500 a year as a State Senator in New Jersey instead of $10,000 as a U. S. Senator. He had stayed in New Jersey in a vain attempt to help Democratic Boss Hague of Jersey City gain control of the State Senate where the Republicans had a majority of one, with one seat in dispute...