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...Pending national legislation on social security, "the question of any changes in the pension plan (will await) further general developments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highlights of Labor Pact | 3/15/1939 | See Source »

...people of the islands, Lifting their eyes to the adorning sun, All await the reign of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: War Verse | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Curious modern improvements await swimmers when they come in from the Park's 1,000-foot strand: automatic showers set off by photoelectric eyes; towel-less drying in warm air currents. A more immediate pleasure on opening day was afforded by about 5,000 square feet of interior murals done by WPA artists under the direction of many-minded Hilaire Hiler (pronounced Hillair Hyler), one of the wonder boys of modern decoration. A onetime saxophone player who drifted from the University of Pennsylvania to Berlin, from Berlin to Paris, Hiler fell to painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sea Murals | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...passages, others in disguise through the Old City's gates. By increasingly violent terrorism they had made life so dangerous for individual officers of the law that the British withdrew from most of the Old City to the largely Christian and Jewish city beyond the walls, there to await reinforcements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Fall | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...ground it remains intact indefinitely. If it is dirty, it can be brushed vigorously without hurting the writing. In the mounds which were piled up by the debris of Babylonian cities built one on top of another the author estimates that 99% of history's cuneiform writings still await discovery. The Babylonians and Assyrians wrote a great deal-records of lawsuits, family archives, commercial ledgers, domestic inventories; contracts, bills of sale; schoolbooks; legends of goods and achievements of kings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Everlasting Books | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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