Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important to place responsibility for the delay, shared alike as it doubtless is by professor and college office. The unpleasant fact is, however, that the effects of this sluggishness have been such as to make a repetition of the error next year undesirable. It is only natural in a university whose intellectual life centers so about its library that any sudden pressure on this nerve center sends radial waves throughout its sinews...
...England Council appointed a committee of bankers to arrange credit for Vermont without delay...
...little button on a switchboard at his elbow. As other passengers entered the polished car, the operator pressed a button for each, corresponding to the designated floor. Finally, at a gesture from the starter, the operator touched a lever within the car, causing the outside doors to shut. Without delay, the car drifted upward at the rate of 800 feet per minute. At each floor for which a button had been pressed, the car automatically stopped, the doors automatically opened. At a touch of the lever the doors closed themselves, the elevator continued its flight. At the 16th floor, dizzy...
...Abbey for memorials to future eminent dead. Said the Archbishop: "The time has now come when the nation must decide whether or not Westminster Abbey is to retain the place it has held for centuries as the shrine of the nations memorials to great men and women. Delay in making this decision is no longer possible...
Tourists may come now across the Hudson River at any time of the day or night, winter or summer, in comfort and without delay, the bridge being normally open to traffic 24 hours each day of the year, winter or summer...