Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worthwhile to call to attention at this time the visit of the Philadelphia Orchesra under the well-publicized Leopold Stokowski to Boston on April 14. The advance sale is so heavy that those who desire tickets had best write in to Aaron Richmond's office in Boston without delay...
...strikers, the sailors respectfully but firmly took over their ships, put the most unpopular officers ashore. Followed some delicate negotiations between the Admiralty and the sailors' delegates. Finally an agreement was reached. But the promised reforms had to go through Parliament, and the suspicious sailors, irked by the delay, mutinied again. This time there was bloodshed. Thoroughly alarmed, the Government rushed the changes into legal form, got a royal pardon for the reformers. Everything ended happily: many an unpopular officer was relieved or transferred and not a single mutineer was punished...
...blood, the reserve blood is treated with sodium citrate to prevent clotting and preserved by electric refrigeration for possible use at any time before, during or after childbirth The principal advantage of the banked blood method obviously is one of speed in supplying immediate transfusions without the sometimes fatal delay of searching for a professional or other donor of suitable type. Because the blood is taken from the patient at least a week before birth is due, there is ample time for the body to furnish new blood, thereby alleviating danger of weakness...
...write from his own viewpoint but the reader of this book finds it almost impossible to forget that the author is obviously out of patience with the system as it now operates. Every action on her part is written of as though it were a test case. There was delay in getting her furniture from some officials who had commandeered it when her husband was suspected of treason but even in this country we feel fortunate to get anything from a government official in a day and a half which is as long as her transaction required. The girls...
Three days later, crammed with a return load of oranges, automobile parts and general merchandise, the caravan headed back East by approximately the same route, this time aiming for Manhattan. Again all went without a hitch, except for an arrest in New Mexico for overloading, a 30-min. delay near Cleveland for a flat tire The caravan shouldered on through blizzards, finally waddled into Manhattan last week in seven days, beating its own schedule by 24 hours, the best railroad freight schedule by 72 hours...