Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Honolulu lost. Came criticism that greediness for the $25,000 prize and the $10,000 second prize was taking men into the air with inefficient planes. Airmen answered that all tests were under U. S. Department of Commerce supervision. Flyers in the race signed a last minute agreement to delay the start four days, to give opportunity for minuter mechanical overhauling, stricter sifting of entrants' abilities...
...Honolulu is tired of delay," said Flyer Clarke. "I don't much care if I am disqualified as a Dole entrant or not. I imagine if I get there first Dole will...
...competition with the Radio Corp.'s present service as far west as Japan, but, said rumor, it would not be operated essentially as a radio competitor but as a cable adjunct, a swift air channel for excess traffic which the cable cannot at present handle without delay, and as a cable auxiliary in case of submarine breakdowns...
...commonplaces, none is more spectacular than calling the U. S. a "melting pot." The Noyes wrapping for this household article is "new united Europe." He defends the U. S. delay in entering the War by picturing U. S. polyglot population as a sturdy band of folk collectively dismayed and none too impressed by the quarrels of their stay-behind cousins back in Europe. He soothes Revolutionary rancor by embracing Washington, Franklin, Hancock, et al., as Englishmen and even appeals to the Empire spirit of Britons by revealing a bevy of immigrant children singing "My Country "Tis of Thee...
Filipinos. Pledges to work "patriotically" for independence are forced upon Filipino politicians, usually obscuring more pressing issues. This would not be so if the U. S. would decide and announce its ultimate purpose in the Philippines. Neglect, indifference, delay are the worst U. S. abuses of the Filipinos.?Professor Ralston Hayden of the University of Michigan...