Word: delay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With subsistence payments for the month of April due, the veterans Administration announced yesterday that it has exhausted its appropriation and that there will be "a few days" delay in posting checks to more than 2,780,000 ex-G.I.'s for unemployment and educational allowances...
Payments will be resumed automatically "in the shortest possible time" after the Congress appropriates the necessary funds, said the Administration, appealing to veterans not to write in about the delay. The checks have been averaging...
...York's tabloid Daily News headlined: POX VACCINE . . . MAY SIDETRACK CUPID. The story: because vaccination sometimes causes a false positive Wassermann, vaccinated couples, required by state .aw to pass the Wassermann test before getting a marriage license, would have to delay their weddings until their vaccinations wear...
Remembering that Memorial Church was not completed until 1982, the members of the Saltonstall Committee have shown a determination to waste no time in making their suggestions. Although they will probably come up with something concrete later this year, so extended drive for funds will materially delay the building of any elaborate project. Whether this factor will weigh heavily in the decision, only the committee itself knows...
...layman can best understand science through its tactics and strategy, rather than by means of "even the basic principles or simplest facts," he moves closer to uncharted territory. This approach, President Conant believes, will show the walls and moats around any advance in science, how these hazards can delay scientific progress for as much as 150 years, and the various ways by which they can be overcome. In other words, "On Understanding Science" is, as the title-page asserts, "an historical approach"--an undeveloped, but hardly a revolutionary concept...