Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cooperate to the fullest extent with the League, though it would perhaps be better, for various cautious reasons, not actually to join it. Others went further, and, faced with the incontrovertible evidence that the League was a living and growing fact, felt that America should join the League without delay, and exercise the largest influence possible in strengthening its power for good, and shaping its course...
...This plan," says Mr. Holden, "would bring about reduction in rates. Better service could be rendered by the roads, and delay at junction points would be eliminated. Car supply to shippers would be more flexible, and a beter general standard of service would be maintained on all lines...
...condition which brought about their meeting was the fact that the law has ceased to be an accurate science. Too many diverse precedents, too much delay, too little agreement as to principles, too many conflicting statutes, too little precision in the use of legal terms, are the things to be remedied. In five years 62,000 statutes passed, and 65,000 court decisions upon them, convictions in less than ten per cent of the homicide cases brought before the courts, decisions reversed in one case out of three when cases are appealed to higher courts-these facts are disturbing...
France has invaded the Ruhr. declared M. Roz, because a debtor will always delay if he feels there is any chance of escape; and France wants Germany to realize that no such escape is open...
...physically capable of action. Viewing it in this light, therefore, his first chance comes late in the third act when he breaks in on his enemy kneeling in prayer; but of course we, the audience, could not sympathize with one who stabbed his enemy in the back, so the delay is excusable...