Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University's delay in taking definite action on the National Defense Education Act has been a source of amazement and disappointment both here and at other schools. That Harvard not only failed to lead the opposition to the loyalty provisions in the Act but also failed to follow the lead given by Princeton, Swarthmore and other institutions no doubt comes as a shock to all those who picture the University as the nation's champion of academic freedom...
...Russians' failure to respond is not regarded as precluding a future agreement. It is thought that "waiting to see" the results of Premier Khrushchev's visit to the United States may have contributed to the delay...
Complete interior reconstruction of Boylston Hall, including the addition of two new floors and a suspended mezzanine, will be finished by Nov. 1, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. James C. Deveney, assistant superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, said that despite delay caused by the steel strike, the November deadline will...
...overhead. U.S. radio receivers were on the wrong side of the earth, but at Jodrell Bank the beeping continued while the moon climbed higher. As the predicted moment approached, the beeps wavered slightly. Then they stopped. In Moscow the radio stopped its program for an announcement. After an unexplained delay (perhaps for rechecking), the radio played a few bars of the International and the announcer said: "At 00:02:24 Moscow time [5:02:24 E.D.T.] the second Soviet cosmic rocket reached the surface of the moon...
...been whittled down to about 50%, and the Democratic Senate, fearing more attrition, has pigeonholed many Eisenhower judicial nominations (25 lay unconfirmed last week), and has refused for three years to act on an urgent Administration bill to create 45 new judges' jobs in areas where docket backlogs delay decisions by as much as 3½ years...