Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressional delay, caused by an unwieldy party majority, lax leadership and the customary rebelliousness of Congressmen at Presidential midterm...
...eggs, toast, cream and coffee. A supper of cold pheasant, potatoes, chutney, pudding, jelly, beer and coffee stayed in the stomach about 47 hours. But 3½to 4 hours usually suffice to digest the ordinary meal. A headache, an emotional upset or a high ratio of fatty foods delay digestion...
...first count, SEC found nothing except an ''unfortunate but nonculpable" delay in putting the directors' action on the news ticker, with the result that Baldwin's home town of Philadelphia got a one-hour jump on Wall Street in the scramble to unload Baldwin securities. On the second count, SEC found that Baldwin's 1933 annual "report "misled the investing public" because the directors' action, "evidencing an impaired working capital position, came as a surprise to the investing public rather than as the acceptance of a situation long in the making...
...Field House. What is the case now? If a man is injured on a playing field, he is forced to wait until late in the afternoon for the doctor to arrive. If he is able to walk, he can go to the Hygiene Building. To point out that delay often involves sacrifice of the most beneficial treatment is sufficient indictment without conjuring up pictures of the other things that might happen...
...interior," attending to matters of mobilization, supply, training and transport on his own familiar ground, while his Army commander took over the broader "theatre of operations." Designed to "place emphasis upon instant availability of a maximum proportion of existing forces," the Four-Army Plan eliminates much costly delay and confusion during the early and critical days of conflict. Such an innovation, calling for reorganization and amplification of the echelons of command from G. H. Q. down, required tireless indoctrination and was not accomplished merely by issuing a general order. A comparable task would be scrambling and rewiring under an entirely...