Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sunken S-4 "lost" during the rough weather that prevented diving, causing further delay until the wreck was found again and rebouyed...
...should a majority of the Representatives appointed to confer on the Tax bill (when it comes back to the House from the Senate), not represent the majority which had just passed the bill? Though it was dinner time, and he loves to dine, Speaker Nicholas Longworth smiled at this delay. "For the time being," said he, "the Chair would say he would regard that question as being more Democratic than parliamentary...
...Graduate Schools have advanced only to the third round of their tournament. This delay can be accounted for by the large number of entries. The winner of the Graduate School contest will meet the title-holder of the undergraduate tournament to determine the squash champion of the University...
...that settlement of this question should not be postponed, last week, there had come to Geneva the Premier of Hungary Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen. He, though potent at home, was no match, at Geneva, for M. Braind who shortly persuaded the Council to delay even consideration of this issue until the next Council meeting in March. Chagrined Hungarians remembered that it was M. Briand who, last March, got the Council to postpone this same matter until the present December...
...Such delay, a particularly familiar growing pain in education, is excusable in this first year of experiment. It is to be hoped, however, that, in the event of a Reading Period in 1929, the University will see fit to anticipate such an annoyance and that the reading lists for that period will all be issued by at least December first...