Word: awaited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect of the atmosphere on the particles; 2) a method for setting up a high potential; 3) a process for amplifying that potential to 50,000,000 volts; 4) creation of "a tremendous electrical repelling force." Two of these are complete in Dr. Tesla's mind. The other two await minor details...
Sticking cigaret after cigaret in his long holder, the President settled down to await the Congressional pleasure. Forty-eight hours later that pleasure was to adjourn, after giving him more social legislation than he had asked for. The railway labor bill he might approve; Huey Long's farm mortgage moratorium bill he would probably veto (see p. 11). ¶The President took out a three-week old letter and read it to correspondents gathered around him. It was an account of some arithmetic done by George Peek, his Special Adviser on Foreign Trade. Mr. Peek had written that...
From these two great and lovable men springs our essential trouble. Between them they divided America in such a way that the honest labor of man could never be fused with his inner spirit, and until such fusion comes we must await the years of our own majority. Nor is Mr. Brooks without proof. What have Longfellow, with his untried sentiments, Bryant with his manufactured moralities, Emerson with his solitary self reliance got to do with the heat and the sweat of life? They are as a barrel organ beside the still, sad music of humanity. Poe and Hawthorne...
...Toronto last week the Appeal Court of Ontario held Brother Martin Insull extraditable on two of the three charges of theft for which the U. S. is asking his return, locked him in the city jail to await the arrival of Chicago detectives...
...suspicion of graft, had sent the army planes of a sudden into the air, they would have found themselves out-maneuvered and shot down. The private planes might, in due time, be fitted for military service, but modern aerial warfare is too quick and deadly to await their reconstruction. Obviously, what the situation demands is not a larger air force, but an air force whose existing equipment is effective, up-to-date, and at least on a par with that of the private lines...