Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inquiry to sit in Boston. In the House of Representatives, three resolutions demanded reports, not only on the specific subjects of the S-4 disaster and safety devices for submarines, but on the efficiency of the Navy in general. Speaker Longworth of the House declared such inquiries would await the findings of the naval court...
...hurled by police and militia, but screams and uproar told what effect the barrage of rifle-fire was having. The convicts returned the fire with their one gun, injuring only one attacker. Seeing that they needed heavier weapons to batter in the cellhouse doors, police and militia withdrew to await the arrival of tanks, airplanes, one-pounders. Snipers watched the cellhouse windows the rest of the afternoon. Warden Smith, who safely left and returned to his office after dark, warned the prisoners that he could flood the cellhouse and drown them all. He offered to let them march...
Surrender followed. In ominous silence, the guards lined up their charges and took the roll. Six haggard men-Tony Brown and two burglars, a murderer, a forger, a robber-went to dark cells to await trial for murder. Grilling began to discover who else had carried the score or more weapons collected, who had smuggled in Convict Brown's gun and a hatful of ammunition. Governor Young returned to Sacramento and Folsom Prison to bitter routine...
...reside in his country villa near Dinard, France, last week. To a correspondent, who asked if the death of Jon Bratiano, foe to Carol, would cause him to return at once to Bucharest, the abdicated prince replied: "You see, I am not preparing to leave for Bucharest. I must await developments in the situation in my country...
...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 notion 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 found the habit of wandering. But once he has started, one of two things happens...