Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French liner Lafayette. "You fall over dukes and princes at Dorchester House," admitted Blonde Bonnie Clare. "The real trouble is," explained Brunette Delia Carroll, "that the ones who are in earnest have no money at all and the rich ones are triflers. A really fine man asked me to wait while he went out to India for three years...
...applicant's school record-is admittedly imperfect. Ideally, as stated before, "if a similar broad examination were to be given in every subject, the entrance system would be adjusted as nearly as possible to the methods of teaching at Harvard." Nevertheless the CRIMSON believes that all advance should not wait upon perfection. The preparatory schools, if freed from the incubus of the examinations, would be able to improve their teaching in accordance with modern developments...
...Dial 911, wait for the dial tone, then dial nine, hang up, and wait for the phone to ring." Such are the instructions from a meddlesome student who has discovered in the new telephone system a method of revenge for the petty persecutions of human operators...
...vice president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, is a member of the Roosevelt Administration to whom most businessmen look with rousing hope. The Federal Housing Administrator, who speaks their language, has taken the lead within the Government of rallying chat conservative opinion which believes that sound recovery must wait on private capital, which opposes huge Federal expenditures that put the Government in competition with private business and frighten off the first faint flutters of returning business confidence. The other school of New Deal thought favors spending Federal funds on a grand scale for maximum social results. To the latter...
...ahead of schedule that at Nishi Technical College, Education Minister Benji Matsuda was not yet dressed when his God swept up to the door. Thrown completely out of gear, the Son of Heaven's program for the day became so disarranged that at one point he had to wait 20 minutes-a sacrilege unspeakable...