Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moon," said Presiding Justice Waite. Assistant Attorney General Marcus Higgenbotham said: "A mechanic could have done this thing." Countered Sculptor Epstein: "No ... he could have polished this but he could not have conceived it." Finally, sick of a nagging, abstruse controversy, Justice Waite intelligently decided to delay a decision until testimony from Birdmaker Brancusi, now in Paris, could be secured...
According to Howard Parker '07 Manager of the H. A. A., the courts WI be ready late next week if frost and rat do not delay the final surfacing...
...Such delay is remarkable aside from the fact that it costs the Ford plant almost a million dollars a day. The Ford corporation that feeds and mans the big guns is a small, easily handled squad of three-its sole stockholders are Henry Ford, Mrs. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford. G. M. C., on the other hand, has a corps of over 80 high executives, its J. P. Morgan banking affiliations and 57,000 stockholders to consider in every maneuver. Yet the Corporation has proved itself the more resourceful of the two when it came to keeping abreast...
Said General Pershing: "I don't think we ought to delay," and got on with the preliminary speeches. Leaving Cherbourg through a driving rain for their Paris Decennial, the legionaries were saluted by poilus stationed every ten feet for nearly two miles along the railway tracks...
Sixth day. Flyer Schlee was given a "good luck bead," used by Turkish cabbies to decorate their horses, and he blamed the bead for the delay in Turkey. He said it worked against his rabbit's foot. The Pride of Detroit, un-superstitious machine, rose from Constantinople, flew to Bagdad, 1,075 miles, making up time...