Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more naval officers before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify against the London Treaty, President Hoover last week began to suspect a subtle filibuster was in progress to block ratification of the Pact at this session. The President has gained enough knowledge of practical politics to realize that delay feeds the fires of Opposition. Sternly he spoke out his displeasure...
...Delay. Correspondent Negley Farson of Chicago's Daily News, who made a special trip from Bombay to riot torn Sholapur (TIME, May 19). complained that officials who claimed they were not censoring his despatches held them up for as much as 12 hours, then suavely explained that this was due to "clerical delay." He also indicated that he could not send the true story of "Bloody Sholapur...
...Daniels is chairman of the church committee who pass on Bishop Cannon's report of his board of temperance and social service administration. The Bishop praised himself in that report. Mr. Daniels made him wait into this week to learn whether or not that praise was confirmed. The delay was cruel. For Mr. Daniels' Committee, over his objections, had approved Bishop Cannon's report, praise and policy last week...
...time is before Columbus. A famine year is upon the forest. Baluk, the tribe's big-muscled hunter, reports to Chetoga, the old chief, that their people should go "many moccasins" north without delay to the crossing place of the caribou. Dagwan, the malicious medicine man, makes it a condition of the plan that if game is not found, Baluk must die. Dagwan's desires are the chieftainship and Chetoga's doe-eyed daughter Neewa...
...glasses of cold beer which is in no way affected by the 18th Amendment-we finally agreed upon you as the only suitable authority. The disputed sentence is as follows: "In landing on a rough and muddy field at Tela, the propeller of the plane was broken, necessitating a delay of two days while installing a new one." Our argument centers only on the grammatical correctness of the sentence structure. We both admit that the rhetoric of it is somewhat faulty but wish to know only if the sentence is grammatically incorrect and, if so, in what particulars. Thirstily awaiting...