Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Garand and Johnson rifles controversy which has rocked military circles, standardization of airplane specifications, and contract factors such as types offered, price ranges, and penalties for failure of delay of delivery are specific among the difficulties to be brought...
Although the postponement causes considerable inconvenience and delay to research workers, the Library authorities have decided not to risk destruction of the materials, Mr. Metcalf said...
...civil service by examinations some 200,000 job holders in 26 Federal agencies; to extend departmental Washington pay scales to the field service. This was something like combined atheism and blasphemy at a religious revival. The spoilsmen got busy at killing the bill. They gave it the works: delay, amendments that subverted its whole purpose, points of order, objections, pigeonholings, pressure. Ramspeck resurrected the measure, answered the lies, used a pulmotor of persuasion on fainthearts, avoided personalities, stuck grimly to the merits of merit...
Elimination of Air Marshal Boyd probably meant little or no delay in Britain's follow-up of her great naval coup at Taranto last fortnight, when Fleet Air Arm fliers knocked holes in half of Italy's battle line, or in new British pressure on Marshal Graziani's time-marking expeditionary force in the western desert. Knowing that Graziani had completed an advance camp 15 miles east of Sidi Bārrani, had drilled new water wells and about finished a hard-surface supply road along the coast, British naval units last week hove up and shelled...
While church members fumed at the delay and building costs mounted, Engineer Irwin Pfuhl, recommended by the building department, was commissioned to revise the plans for the church's foundations, so that work could go ahead on them this week. Architect Wright agreed to be a little more specific about his specifications...