Word: await
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressure from the Right wing of the Administration was heavy but his advisers on the Left wing urged him to hold out until after the major legal tests of the power program are decided. The Duke Power case (PWA grants), and the Electric Bond & Share case (holding companies) await the attention of the Supreme Court. The famed 19-company challenge to TVA's constitutionality was on trial last week in Chattanooga. It is the first important case to come before one of the new special three-judge tribunals from which an appeal passes directly to the Supreme Court...
...France by U. S. District Court Judge Samuel Mandelbaum, who called her Paris coup de pistolet at Count Charles Pineton de Chambrun (TIME, Nov. 22) "an act of baseness, vileness or depravity." Few hours later, free under a $1,000 bail bond, she was ferried to Manhattan to await the outcome of an appeal to the U. S. Circuit Court. Same day Judge Mandelbaum's ruling was made, members of the cast of Manhattan's bankrupt and closed French Casino, where Magda de Fontages was to cavort, sailed on the Normandie, weeping bitterly. Said one: "We gave...
...dons its equipment for the approaching battle the Harvard team will have one of three attitudes. It won't be sick with fear, naturally, but it may await the kick-off with confidence, quake at the thought of defeat, or vow never to yield...
...Show, and dined later (a rare treat) with an eminent horticulturist; having afterward heard, for the first time in his life, great music, in the form of Beethoven's Eroica symphony, he returns very tired, belatedly, to the almost deserted castle of Wotton Vanborough. There still further surprises await him. A search for a suspected rat-nest leads him into a series of secret passageways. He emerges from these to confront an antique statue, glitteringly gilded; the statue falls, bursts open, revealing a cache of medieval manuscripts. At last, from an atmosphere grown dreamlike in its portentous illogicality...
...cream eating duel stop Where shall we eat stop If Princeton beats Harvard in Saturday's football game I am willing to eat at Princeton stop If Harvard wins are you willing to come to Cambridge stop If tie I suggest eating at New Haven stop Await reply...