Word: await
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acknowledging at all times his archreactionary sympathies, ex-Finanzminister Schumpeter makes it a point to distinguish between what is desirable and what is inevitable, and predicts an early triumph for revolutionary forces in the West. And that he is more than happy to await among his colleagues and assistants in the cheerfully efficient little community on the top floor of Holyoke
Acknowledging at all times his archreactionary sympathies, ex-Finanzminister Schumpeter makes it a point to distinguish between what is desirable and what is inevitable, and predicts an early triumph for revolutionary forces in the West. And that he is more than happy to await among his colleagues and assistants in the cheerfully efficient little community on the top floor of Holyoke
...into the seats of the mighty. In Russia, Austria, Germany, "the king" and "the empire" became frail words which foolish men scrawled up on walls or sidewalks late at night. Handsome gentlemen whose families had sketched the map of Europe for centuries moved off into quiet watering places to await, beneath the trees, a call which has not come...
Commissioner MacCormick could not change Welfare Island overnight from a crowded, filthy firetrap to a model institution, but he could and did put Cleary, Rao & Co. in solitary confinement to await possible dope-peddling trials. The Commissioner sent narcotic addicts and diseased prisoners to the hospital, while young prisoners were segregated. He took from the perverts their frippery, sent them squealing to the barber to have their locks trimmed, saw that they remained alone in their own eating and living quarters. He charged the deputy warden with breaking almost every rule in the city's penological code, stripped Warden...
...Last year it was decided to await the decision of the new president. This winter President Conant gave his approval to the split without commenting on the change. It is generally understood, however, that it was not part of his new plan. This is proved by the fact that he gave his support to the merger of Physiology, Zoology, and Botany at the same time...