Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia the worried Bolsheviks consider themselves likely objects of Japanese and German pincers closing upon Russia in simultaneous war from East and West (TIME. Feb. 24). The prostrate Chinese as they scanned the news from Tokyo this week remained particularly prostrate, a comfortable posture in which they await Japanese bankruptcy, Japanese proletarian revolution, Japanese defeat by Russia or the decay of Japanese from temperamental instability in a few hundred or thousand years...
Last week, at President Roosevelt's direction, the War Department issued an order summarily relieving General Hagood of his command, ordering him to proceed from his headquarters at San Antonio, Tex. to his home at Orangeburg, S. C. to "await orders...
...sufficient to coat them and the surface with glare ice. Sand is a useful article whose virtues seem to have been ignored in this crisis; the qualities of sand are admirable, not only on icy streets but on icy sidewalks; not all the sidewalks have been sanded, and thrills await the traveller on the more remote byways. Quick snow removal, and a liberal application of sand, would make progress afoot and awheel less picturesque, but more efficient...
...university professorships with "roving commissions" among the departments, but "without portfolios" and free from departmental restrictions and administrative duties, yet free to carry on investigation in any laboratory in the university; and second, the establishment of new Harvard national scholarships. But for the latter he has not had to await the coming of the new century. The historian and philosopher Henry Osborn Taylor, of the class of '78, approaching his eightieth year, has led the way by the endowment of the first...
...Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Awakin'? Given time to pose for cameramen, to announce in a thick brogue, "Yes, I met Mr. Carnegie when he used to give out chil dren's feeds at Skibo," Piper Grant was bundled off by Carnegie Son-in-Law Roswell Miller to await jubilee celebrations on Nov. 25. That day Walter Damrosch will conduct a choral-orchestral program at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall; Secretary of State Hull will address a gathering in Washington's Pan American Union Building, built with Carnegie funds ; Pittsburgh will honor its onetime first citizen; more than...