Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snapped free of its anchorage, sailed out from the brow of the hill like a stone from a boy's slingshot. Headed into the teeth of a 30 m. p. h. wind, Unguentine zoomed up 175 ft. without advancing more than 50 ft. Pilot Eaton landed without delay. His comment: "Plenty tough." Only one other pilot ventured a take-off that day. Jack O'Meara, who has glided up & down thermic currents over Manhattan, soared for 3 hr. 42 min., climbed to 3,259 ft., 45 ft. short of the U. S. altitude record. Other pilots & crews amused...
...manner of Governor Roosevelt quoting great Democrats of the dead past, Prime Minister MacDonald opened the Conference with a speech quoting the Basle Committee's urgent advice last year that "adjustment of all intergovernmental debts to the existing troubled situation of the world . . . should take place without delay if new disasters are to be avoided" (TIME, Jan. 4). A great orator, Scot MacDonald gave new freshness to this stale, sound advice by rolling out such exhortations...
That man is Alfred E. Smith. ... As Roosevelt generalizes, Smith is specific. As Roosevelt loves to delay, Smith loves action. Irresolution is ingrained in one; boldness in the other. ... In Franklin Roosevelt we have another Hoover. . . . The election of either Hoover or Roosevelt would be a blow from which this nation would not recover in a generation. . . . The times call for courage and action. We have those qualities in Smith...
...Interior Rolando Merino. General Puga arose from his sick bed. Senor Davila's mild methods of socialization, it was said, were the cause of his fall, but the Junta announced its regime would receive his support. Only new indication of policy was that the Government would delay converting the Banco Central into a State institution. It was reported that Aurelio Munez Morgado, strongly antagonistic to "Co-sach," would supervise Chile's nitrate industry. But Chile's Government late last week was still nebulous. Only undisputed leader was Colonel Marmaduke Grove...
...long delay in reducing the prices still remains, to most minds, unexplained. Even when the present charges corresponded more perfectly to the prices in the wholesale market, the Dining Halls were run with sufficient profit. Though outside prices have fallen, the Administration has long persisted in its high costs long after conditions and undergraduate opinion justly demanded change...