Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would lend them $32,500,000 additional- the remainder of a credit which was originally extended. The U. S. commission politely but firmly represented the impossibility of loaning Greece any more money even to get the original debt funded. Hence the delay while Athens was asked what the next Greek move would be. A few days later it was announced that M. Cofinas, head of the Greek mission, would have to go home to consult with his government, but that "negotiations will be continued for the present through the Greek minister...
...only a few know, most of the bother and delay in editing and publishing this directory is occasioned not by the college data, as one would naturally suppose, but by the statistics pertaining to the remainder of the University. Those who have previously been responsible for the Register feel that as an organ of the entire University it can never be practical. Professional or amateur publishers, whether competent or incompetent, will never be able to make it a prompt or paying proposition, as long as the Graduate Schools are included in its pages. It is their belief that the Register...
...obviously unsatisfactory situation, abolished the undergraduate board and placed the Register in the hands of a professional editor. The first year of the new plan saw the Register issued on December 18, an improvement, even if slight, over old conditions. This year the relapse to the accustomed delay brings the problem back again, more aggravated than before...
...Register are of course great; but that they are such as to require four and a half months time is denied by common sense and by past experience. In 1921 an undergraduate board brought out the Register on October 28, a feat which stands as a permanent indictment against delay...
...three modern tyrants knows the golden moment for severing these chains, perhaps history will rank him with the hero of old Greece. Otherwise they will only serve to delay the eventual arrival of a sound strong Democratic government. It is their privilege either to create newer and better republics, or to undo all that has gone before...