Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main reason for the exceptionally long delay in the Register's appearance, Keith explained, is that a great many Yardlings did not have their pictures taken until short time...
...second and major suggestion for the improvement of service in Widener Library entails a certain amount of architectural adjustment. At the present time the cramped space of the Delivery Room and the small size of the delivery desk result in an inordinate amount of confusion and delay; there is rarely enough room to sit down, and the crowds that mill around the desk interfere with those who are trying either to file slips or withdraw books. These present difficulties could be eliminated by breaking down the wall between the present Bibliographical Reference Room and the Delivery Working Room, making...
...went to see the chief of our department; he was sleepy, too, and for the same reason.' " The crop-rotation scheme, Izvestia revealed, is no nearer realization now than it was in the spring, and Sotsialisticheskoe Zemledelie (Socialist Agriculture} gave a ready explanation for the delay: the "enemies of the people" formerly in charge of the Commissariat made a hit-or-miss job out of allotting land to the collective farms. There was no survey, with the result that "deeds of eternal possession" to the same plot of land were often handed to two or three different farms...
...regrettable that it has not been realized that there is some similarity between the present position of the United States and that of England at the time of its Sandys case flurry about the delay in the delivery of arms. England did not dream that it was as unprepared for war as was later revealed. It had no inkling of how it was suffering from a dangerous slowness in production of all types of arms and from a lack of supplies and of organization. It is not inconceivable that such a desperate situation was a primary cause of what...
That this delay is not as formidable in scope as England's may be due to the fact that the United States has not as yet intensified its campaign for increased defense. If proper attention is not given to seeing that armament is completed on schedule, a serious disorganization may occur. Such confusion and unpreparedness can do nothing but harm to the country. As long as the United States has rightly or wrongly set upon the course of vigorous rearmament, it should see in England's position a warning of the dangers of falling behind in production for defense...