Word: await
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the broader effects of the financial restrictions already evident, all departments await the return of President Conant, the random blows of the draft, and an unforeseeable future to determine the detailed alterations in courses and instruction...
...test works a good deal like skin-testing for allergy. The test material is colostrum-a thin, watery fluid secreted in the breasts of gravid women. From them colostrum is extracted, mixed with sterile salt solution and a preservative chemical, stored under refrigeration to await use. To make a Falls test, a small amount of the colostrum preparation is injected into a woman's forearm. If she is not pregnant, a reddish weal will appear. If she is pregnant she will not react. Theory is that pregnant women, secreting colostrum of their own, are immune to injections...
...effort of the U. S., should, by rank and weight, be the Secretary of State. But sainted Mr. Hull, full of years and ill health-and no New Dealer-is not to be it. The New Dealers, who admire Mr. Hull but not his views, will just have to await his retirement...
...when the frenzy of Washington jingoism succeeds in permeating the Yard there will no longer be any reason for remaining at Harvard. We can then go home, curl up on the couch with that useful anesthetic, Out of the Night, and remain lost in a morbid phantasmagoria while we await the postman with his message from the Department of War. Leo Marx '41 Editor of the Harvard. Progressive...
...friends, Dr. Damrosch still puts in an eight-hour work day. As NBC's musical counsel honoris causa, he has worked at a steady job for 13 years: NBC's Music Appreciation Hour. Every Friday some 7,000,000 youngsters, most of them in public-school classes, await with pencils and notebooks the mellow baritone of nice old Dr. Damrosch: "Good afternoon, my dear children...