Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clients, the brothers Leonardo and Pietro Danna, recent immigrants from Sicily. They had invented a water bicycle. They had wanted a patent. They had asked Mr. Applebaum to get it for them, then called frequently to see if it had come. Unable to comprehend the law's delay, by nature suspicious and cranky, Brother Pietro now drew a gun, shot Patent Attorney Applebaum to death...
...week of pretending that British Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson was sending out from London invitations to the great naval powers. He received the Quaker-Scotch text from Washington, dutifully had four fair copies made, despatched them to Washington, Paris, Rome, Tokyo. A further bit of mummery was to delay publication of the U. S. State Department's "acceptance" until a few hours after Scot MacDonald left Washington (see above...
...advantages of using the H. A. A. surplus in completing the new Gymnasium were set forth in the CRIMSON last Spring to an extent which makes further review unnecessary. The delay in finally employing these funds in accordance with these ideas may probably be explained by the hope of the Corporation for further subscriptions from Alumni. The fact that there is a pressing need for funds in many departments which are not self-supporting can only increase the satisfaction over the present decision to make this perfectly legitimate use of the Associations surplus funds...
According to Maxfield Parrish '29 who piloted the plane together with R. B. Bell '30, vice-president of the Flying Club, the journey was a rough one in which they were delayed by having to follow a low pressure area almost all the way. Flying by day and landing at night, the plane hailed at Jefferson City, Missouri, Buffalo, and Rochester on the way from Wichita to Boston. The greatest delay in their flight came at Jefferson City where two days of in clement weather prevented them from taking...
...flexible tariff." The Voice went on to say that Flexible Tariff Ridge (see map, TIME, Sept. 30) must by all valor be held for the Republic. To hold it would not make the President a despot. To lose it would surrender the whole tariff into the hands of delay, mischance, selfish bickering. The tariff was a human institution, inevitably imperfect. Let the President correct it (through the present clause allowing him to raise or lower duties 50% upon recommendation of the Tariff Commission, without consulting Congress) whenever necessary...