Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foreign Minister declined to accede to the Diplomats' demands, but was willing to consider them as a basis for further negotiations. He declared that the bandit episode was not an anti-foreign demonstration; that progressive indemnities are unfair, because delay in releasing prisoners was caused by the Powers' insistence on negotiations with the bandits; that guarantees against repetition must be reconsidered, because, in the absence of official connivance in the kidnapping and of an anti-foreign motive, in their present form they would be likely to incense the people and render nugatory security for foreign lives and property...
...delay from May, 1922, to September...
...yesterday on the Jarvis courts, and not one of the seeded men participated. Rain did not interfere with the playing yesterday, some of the courts even being dusty, but the strong wind made lobbing out of the question, and even affected slow services. During the entire afternoon men would delay their service in order to play the point if possible in a lull in the wind...
...being proved that a man, no matter how rich, no matter how influential, no matter how generously endowed with astute counsel, must bow to the yoke of the Law. Over the portals of the court house where the case is being tried, appears: "To no man will we sell, delay or deny justice...
...Enright has also begun the work of clearing out the four Charlesbank skating rinks in order that they may be put into service without delay this winter...