Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vain Laborites tried to delay the break. Their leader, onetime Premier James Ramsay MacDonald, was still so weak (on his arrival from the U. S. last week) that he could not address the House, but merely hobbled in using a cane. Other Laborites, marshaled by Deputy Chairman of the Labor Party John Robert Clynes, spoke, but under the heavy drawback that they feared to seem to take the part of "Bolsheviks," "Reds...
...welcome then will doubtless be the greater for its delay. Manhattanites have acquired, largely from his electric personality, an increasingly positive reaction to symphony. Five years ago they filled only 71% of the Philharmonic's seats during the season. Last season they filled...
Colleges of this type will surely attract large enrollments, composed of men who wish to delay their entrance into the world by playing football for four or more years. If this is to be the case. America will be most truthfully called the land, of the dollar, and its educational institutions will degenerate into the Lyceum school exalted by the ancient Greeks. Brown Daily Herald...
...fact that waiting for elections made to the clubs during next fall would delay publication by several weeks, it has been decided to include in the organization lists only of such men as are members at the end of this year...
...department of History, Government, and Economics is the only one which has yet taken any action on this proposal, having provisionally decided to do away with the midyear General and Divisional examinations after next year. The delay of at least a year in putting the plan into effect is for the benefit of those members of the class of 1928 who intend to take their degrees next February. Although none of the other departments have yet considered the matter of changing the present system of two sets of General Examinations each year, it is probable that most of them will...