Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to decide what causes the delay. Presumably the games started at the same time as in other years and it is safe to believe that the sun is not setting ahead of schedule. The sole reason, therefore, seems to be that the games took longer to play. But why longer? One dislikes to go into personalities, but in some of the games, particularly Saturday's with Holy Cross, Dr. T. K. Richards, that enthusiastic oarsman, appeared to be the most prominent Harvard athlete on the field. Hardly would the play become exciting, before Dr. Richards, ever vigilant, would detect...
...snowstorm over Queen Maud Sea. Out of fuel, they alighted on the water and dragged their planes to shore. They did not know that they were only 40 miles from the Fort St. James. Even had they known, they could not have crossed the water. After long delay the winter freeze arrived. Then came Eskimos who guided them over the jagged ice to hospitality. Colonel McAlpine had lost...
...After a delay of two weeks, during which Clifford Gallagher, new wrestling coach, was occupied with duties as trainer of the Freshman football team, the grapplers will get under way this afternoon at 3 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium...
...scout, the writer says, "He brings to the coaching councils all the latest improvements in plays and coaching methods which the multitude of coaches throughout the country may devise, and he gives his own camp an opportunity to discuss and adopt the new idea without even the delay of a season ...... That is one basic reason why the game has developed so rapidly in recent years." Student at Large, The Yale News...
...President was visited by a number of Senators (who) presented to him the grave situation that has arisen by delays in tariff legislation. . . . Some of the Senators considered progress hopeless as it appeared to them that the coalition intended to delay or defeat legislation. . . . "The President said . . . that campaign promises should be carried out . . . that he could not believe and therefore would not admit that the U. S. Senate was unable to legislate...