Word: waited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thus far, Super-Tuchun Wu despatched a note to the Customs Conferees at Peking, suggesting that their assembly might well be postponed "until such time as a more representative Government functions in China." He meant, of course, "I'm going to gobble up China, Peking and all. Better wait until I do and negotiate with me." The Conferees, secure in their nine-powered might, ignored Wu for the present and opened their deliberations...
From Manhattan last week came press reports of advances in the treatment of cancer by radium. Experiments have gone on for some six months at the Memorial Hospital. No final results are claimed, and such cures as have been obtained must wait some time before they can be pronounced permanent...
Meanwhile Marshall Petain was ordering his soldiers to squat down on their present position and wait until spring, when the present torrential rains will cease. Already more rain has fallen during October than the average total precipitation for both October and November. In the French sector, every road is a bog, every valley is a swamp...
...went through in the World War, we must have unity of the Christion people. We cannot, in all loyalty to the heart and mind of Christ, reject this opportunity for unity. We will either have that unity or we will have the unity which shall come if we wait until we are driven to get her in agony, like huddled sheep, by the fierceness of the storm...
...swept with unacknowledged thrills at being about to witness an accident. Cant. Duncan was in one of the most desperate situations that can confront an aviator. He knew that a crash was inevitable unless he landed with absolutely flawless skill. He saw an ambulance scuttle out down below and wait by the side of the field. But it was not used...