Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...await the speedy coming of the hour of the safety of our country...
...would provide similar advantages for the younger man. Mechanically, the plan for a semester of foreign study might operate with considerable success were the award made at the end of the student's Sophomore year to be held until the following mid-years. Profitable terms at many continental universities await the discerning student. Interesting contacts can be built up and an interplay of opinion produced which will go far toward creating an international attitude on the part of the American...
...constituency of Midlothian he appealed to the country. Economy for those at home, freedom for oppressed nations abroad-finance and Christian idealism?these were his two topics. In the battle of Midlothian, he temporarily buried Disraeli's glory under an unprecedented Liberal victory. "Nothing more than trouble and trial await me," said the Queen. He came back to power?not the old Gladstone of Christ Church, Oxford, but the new Gladstone; who, little as he could have dreamed it, was the forerunner of the pre-War Lloyd George, Liberal demagog...
...whole problem of recruiting the teaching profession is here stated luminously and conclusively. As a career teaching offers nothing materially speaking, commensurate with the profits which await men of similar ability in other professions On a financial basis it cannot compete with law, medicine, business, and hardly with some trades. This fact, of course, is not new, but it is worth stating in figures which cannot be blinked...
...frightful lie!" The other male defendant, one Henri Froger, was called: "The Abbé afflicted me likewise with shameful diseases. . . . We did not mean to kill him but only to defend our Sainted Mother Marie, whose statue of the Blessed Virgin now weeps* night and day. . . . We await such punishment as may be meted out to us as martyrs. We have only done our duty." Mme. Robert, who had declared earlier that she was the last to flog the Abbé des Noyers before he swooned, opened her testimony with a prayer. Said she: "We were often bounced about...