Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer is obvious. Harvard should begin without delay to break the ground and to set about planning for the day when, with this scheme under way, she will be able to render a very real service to both the city and to the commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...time the racket was taking $6,000 per month out of Iowa alone. There were said to have been 2,000 victims in Quincy, Ill. Missouri, according to one faction of this huge gullery, was the home of Sir Francis' "rightful heir." Delay in the inheritance's division was explained by the promoters in many ways. One story was that a British "ecclesiastical court"-sometimes a "secret court"-was holding things up, waiting for the King to put the "golden seal" on the right papers. Two decades ago, Woodrow Wilson was reported to have been driven insane...
East's major game last week was Princeton v. Navy. It turned out to be one of the season's most impressive. Beaten only once in three years, equipped currently with a team whose power has sometimes been matched by a willingness to delay displaying it, Princeton scored once in each period against the tight defense that held Notre Dame to two touchdowns a fortnight ago, rolled...
...inspection of the building came after numerous complaints had been registered against the small stairway and exit which delay classes entering and leaving the building...
With Canadian bookstores and cinema houses plugging his royalties furiously last week, canny John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, prolonged the money-making suspense of his arrival as Governor General by postponing it to Nov. 2. The given reason for this delay was to allow time for William Lyon Mackenzie King, the Liberal victor in Canada's general election (TIME, Oct. 21), to be sworn in as Premier before the distinguished author arrives to occupy viceregal Rideau Hall...