Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Jiménez, TIME'S sincere apologies for a mistake taken from a careless Associated Press dispatch...
...reasonableness which characterized its closing weeks. Hopes that the frictions that had plagued the Foreign Ministers' Conferences would be absent at Flushing were dashed as soon as the Assembly passed the back-slapping preliminaries and settled down to business. The same old demands and accusations were dragged from delegates' dispatch cases and presented "de novo." The same unwillingness to compromise was evident. Stalemate seemed likely...
...term such a reason existed. Even the occasional admission of women might well have complicated to the point of chaos the problem of serving efficiently unprecedented numbers of Yardlings. But now that last-minute breakfast stampedes and 1 o'clock lunch hordes alike are handled with speed and dispatch, the union should be able to admit women guests, at least on Saturday nights, without too great a strain. The Houses, also operating well over normal capacity, feed women five times weekly. In addition, the Union management has found that one or two hundred diners more or less make little difference...
Westward Ho. Thus encouraged, the brothers branched out: to St. Paul (the Pioneer Press and Dispatch), to Duluth (the News-Tribune and Herald), the Dakotas (Aberdeen and Grand Forks) and the West Coast. They own 49% of the prosperous Seattle Times, and for one year ran the San Francisco Chronicle...
...taken unanimously, or not at all; for each meeting a Clerk is appointed to gather the "sense of the meeting" on a given subject, reduce it to a minute for the meeting's approval. Quakers find the method makes up in unity for what it loses in dispatch. Its one big failure: the Hicksite-Orth-dox schism...