Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Have you ever snooped with a camera? Have you ever lain in wait for a famous fellow to make a fool of himself? Have you ever sneaked away with your camera under your coat felling sure that you have taken the one picture in millions that shows a true expression? Unusual pictures will be more and more in demand in the future, and the college is rich ground where they wait for an ogle-eyed photographer to find them...
...alumni through two giant loudspeakers. He then proceeded to read several letters written by far-sighted alumni in 1836 to be read at the 1936 Tercentenary. President Quincy, it turned out, had neglected to seal them up before 1843. An unnamed Philadelphia graduate had been willing to wait a century for the denouement of a crabbed jest when he wrote: ''I owe nothing to the president, professors and tutors of Harvard College in office from 1810 to 1814." Of larger interest was a note from Samuel Atkins Eliot, later Harvard's treasurer, apologizing for delay in some...
...Conditions at numerous plants are so bad I cannot wait for improvement!" be.lowed Comrade Lubimov at a Moscow congress of Soviet factory managers. "I find many factories letting all the workers go on vacation at once-thus halting production-and in many cases where vacations were not granted when, the workers wanted them they have simply gone off and played truant. Inadequate managers will be immediately discharged...
Thus was sharply drawn a problem between two mutually dependent professions. Doctors must have chemists to invent new drugs; chemists must have doctors to try out new drugs. But should chemists wait until doctors say: "We want a new drug to do so & so. Try to create it"? Or should chemists say: "Here is something new. See what it is good...
...tactful, observant mother, Charles was old enough to wonder if the Yankees were still having a war up in their country, to sense his parents' social isolation in New Castle, Del., where they settled. Capable, indecisive, troubled, Dr. Chastain at 32 had left Charlottesville because he could not wait for a post at the University to be offered to him. He told his son that the Yankees had been licking Southerners at business for a hundred years, but that the South still turned out good doctors, good officers, good lawyers, in such abundance that they could not make...