Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Terre Haute, Ind., birthplace of the late great Radical Eugene V. Debs and scene last year of a general strike, Police Chief James C. Yates announced that Communist Presidential Nominee Earl Browder would not be allowed to make a scheduled campaign speech in the city. In Chicago, proceeding without delay to cash in on the publicity and sympathy sure to accrue from such tactics, the No. 1 U. S. Red flashed off telegrams to President Roosevelt and Indiana's Governor Paul V. McNutt protesting violation of "the most elementary democratic principles," swiftly entrained for Terre Haute. Chief Yates...
...three times. While 100 Holy Rollers shouted and sang, Anderson reeled, was assisted from the platform and taken home. "I'll hold out faithful to the end," he gasped. Last week he summoned doctors. No toxicologists, they watched him die, declined to say whether it was from the delay or from the mixture of venom, potent even for Southern believers in pious immunity...
...Tickle objected to any delay of the operation. Grimacing, said he, "was due to a splitting of the neurofibrils in the graft. A lapse of time for degeneration of the facial nerve does not help. I have found a large proportion of cases of spasm where the grafting took place six months or more after injury...
...first week of intensive Intramural football practice got under way yesterday, House teams faced a handicap in lack of men. Rainy weather last week has already caused a delay in the dates of opening games, by interfering with early practices...
...century for the denouement of a crabbed jest when he wrote: ''I owe nothing to the president, professors and tutors of Harvard College in office from 1810 to 1814." Of larger interest was a note from Samuel Atkins Eliot, later Harvard's treasurer, apologizing for delay in some Bicentenary task because his 2-year-old son was seriously ill. Said James Bryant Conant: "It was lucky for Harvard that this baby recovered, for his name was Charles William Eliot." At this mention of the man under whose celebrated 40-year (1869-1909) administration Harvard blossomed into...