Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room-agents in the Square is in no way binding. It is but an opportunity given to the undergraduate to express his preference of dormitories--an opportunity which should be utilized. Later on it will not be a question of preference, but of necessity. A delay of a few weeks or a month this year means the difference between living in a satisfactory or unsatisfactory room for nine or ten months next year. By early application, both the College and the undergraduate benefit; the College in the further facility and efficiency of its clerical work; the undergraduate in the future...
...Iowa marksmen who, due to a delay in counting the scores, were not heard from till yesterday morning, shot considerably better; their scores follow: Parker, 88; Wilkinson, 88; Barrans, 80; Morris, 75; Halback, 72; total...
...three weeks, during which the bill has been in the hands of a sub-committee, Congress has apparently forgotten it. No report on it has yet been made and the day of adjournment is too near to allow further delay...
...blindness which occasions such delay is appalling and yet is well-known. The last days of any Congress are a heetic political scramble in which proportion and discretion are usually lost sight of. Indifference to vital interests has meant the indefinite postponement of too many bills. In the present case, however, there are not only dollars, but lives at stake. It seems incredible that Congress, even though it be nearing its last meeting, should overlook this fact...
...There has been one radical suggestion made, which has been discussed a good deal among officials. This is about the old question of delaying the game by stalling. Last year it was proposed to measure the game by the number of plays, but this suggestion was turned down. Some of the proponents of this scheme are still thinking about it. Between the halves at the Harvard-Princeton game last fall one of these men, in discussing the game with a group of officials, said that by actual count there were twice as many plays in one quarter as there were...