Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...married sister, a U. S. citizen, brought her to this country. In Chicago she became a milliner. She took out her first citizenship papers; her second papers have been filed and now await a hearing. Last spring she received a message from Warsaw that her father was dying. Forthwith she applied for a permit to re-enter the U. S., obtained it, sailed for Poland. Her father recovered. She started back for Chicago. In Paris her purse and her permit were stolen, but the U. S. consul at Paris assured her that she would have no trouble re-entering this...
...seasons ago a stimulating comedy, hight "Beggar on Horseback", graced our stage. It was the translation by two young men, Connelly and Kaufman, of a German idea into American manners and language. They were acclaimed, justly, as play-wrights of promise and the world settled back to await more words of wisdom from them. In time, their partnership was dissolved but now one of them has broken his silence. Which leads us, not altogether inevitably, to Marc Connelly's latest play, "The Wisdom Tooth", now at the Hollis...
...remained for a local reporter, a former student, of Dr. Mather's at Denison University, to remember that the famous Harvard geologist would be visiting his home at Granville in a few days. He immediately went there with the news of the find to await Dr. Mather's arrival...
...people try for the CRIMSON anyway? And having tried, why do they keep on trying once they learn the difficulties and pitfalls that await them. They try, in the first place, for any number of reasons. They may be brought out by a hangover of the preparatory school nation of being a Big Man around College. They may find that curricular work does not demand enough of their time to keep them busy. They may be bored. They may just wander in because they have formed the habit of wandering. But once he has started, one of two things happens...
Among the projects for which there is a demand, but neither money on hand nor a drive, the two most important are probably the swimming pool and the new gymnasium. Both occupy prominent positions in Athletic Director Bingham's program, and only await the necessary cash. Some of this at least will be realized this fall from the sale of football tickets that have been raised in price with the express purpose of supplying money for the University's "athletics for all" policy