Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report to Congress with a temperate letter of recommendation. This newest New Deal plan to make life richer and safer for farmers differed from previous ones in that it was not to be launched on an imperial scale. Its authors proposed to begin with the 1938 wheat crop only, wait on time and experience before extending it to other staples...
...felt that at last she could paint the way she wanted to paint. With charcoal she covered sheets and sheets with neat abstract drawings, sent them to a friend in Manhattan with specific instructions not to show them to anyone else. Anita Pollitzer, the friend, could hardly wait to rush the drawings to Dealer Alfred Stieglitz who promptly gave them an exhibition. Enraged, Georgia O'Keeffe went rushing north to protest: Stieglitz argued back. Nine years later they were married...
...performed in the free port are called "manipulation," since by the terms of the law "manufacturing" is forbidden. Until now, if a shipper wished to "manipulate" arriving goods before re-exporting them, he had to take them through customs, pay the duty, take them back through the customs and wait for his 99% refund...
...scatter the good of cheap power. Then, starting with 5,000 customers, he launched a campaign to buy up the private companies, continually forcing the issue with direct competition. The Power Bureau would merely string a line down a street parallel to the private lines, offer lower rates, wait for the rush of customers. The private companies could not meet the price without lowering rates in the whole territory. In 1922, after furious litigation, Southern California Edison had to capitulate, selling out to the city...
10th. Up betimes to stand long in the window before dressing myself. Down under me the Charles running along toward the Basin with as little concern as if it never heard of February. Lord, how forlorn the little islands of ice do look! It seems as if they wait hopefully for some sudden chill to freeze them into their accustomed mass. The sky is bright and blue. Methinks much too much for a winter's morning. In my ears hum those pretty lines of Mr. Wordsworth...