Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strange freak of nature, that those great holocaustic agencies that affect man most, should be so little understood by him while they exist. Mankind must forever await patiently the future which shall interpret the past in retrospect. The question, "Who began the war?" must remain for the present as impenetrable a mystery as its correlative...
British gossips recalled that Princess Mary is one of three ladies of the Court who recently announced their approaching retirement to the country, there to await the appearance of further issue to the British aristocracy. The two other ladies so circumstanced are the Duchess of York and Lady Louis Mountbatten (wife of the cousin of King George...
...length the earthly remains of Alexandra were placed beside those of King Edward, in the crypt of the Chapel. There the imperial pair will await the completion of a great sarcophagus now being built for them...
...Paris Shah Ahmad declared: I am, and remain the legitimate constitutional sovereign of Persia, and I await the hour of my return, to my country to serve my people, whose noble character and loyalty to me in difficult times I shall never forget. ... The coup d'état which Reza Khan has just committed against the constitution and against my dynasty was made at the point of the bayonet. . . . Against it I have raised a vehement and solemn protest. I consider as void and without value all present and future acts of his government. I maintain all my rights...
...water that contains even 0.2% of common salt. The British physiologist, J. S. Haldane, explains this as due to the fact that the salt added to the drinking water makes up for that taken from the body by perspiration. Scientists are inclined to regard the matter as empirical and await controlled experiments...