Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite as necessary that these vessels should be readily available. This can only be the case when we ourselves have the vessels under our own flag, vessels of suitable type and in ample numbers. Recent history has emphasized the fact that any form of delay in readiness to attack or meet the enemy in the beginning of the war is not only expensive in men and money, but often fatal in final result...
...plans the committee has made necessitates the immediate mailing to the Album office of the remaining life blanks, and the taking of all other pictures at Notman's as soon as possible. If any members of the class delay, the work which is already well under way will be seriously held up because the arrangements demand that all material be ready before the printers start work...
...reasons he gives are sound, as far as they are carried. Men who delay entering until they are nineteen or twenty prove less flexible under the developing influences that college is supposed to direct upon them: Many feeling that they should "get out in the world", grow impatient and either try to hurry through their course in three years, or devote themselves to studies which offer practical training instead of "deepening and enlarging the outlook on life", which must be, after all, the real aim of such an education as Harvard offers. Furthermore the report declares that "Statistics. . . showed conclusively...
...link between the United States and other countries has been made by the establishment of a World Court for the arbitration of trade disputes. Hitherto the only way of setting these disputes has been by legal means fraught with all sorts of trouble, expense, and delay. By this new method all the difficulties rising from differences in language and laws, the great distances involved, and the limitations of communication will be done away with and the disputes settled quickly, economically, and justly...
There has been considerable difficulty in making a selection from among the many excellent plays available. The 47 Workshop does not want to put on any plays for which the writers can secure professional production, and there has therefore been a temporary delay in making a final selection from the possible list...