Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the result of this biggest NRA fire and counterfire to date would be, Washington had to wait and see. How the President felt about the Darrow report was quickly demonstrated. The White House disclosed that the Darrow board will soon cease to exist because when the board was created the President. Mr. Darrow and General Johnson agreed that it should finish its work by May 31. This announcement was a surprise to some members of the Board. No surprise was it to most politicians. Since President Roosevelt could not suppress the Darrow report without inviting charges that...
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...Railway Express depot on Manhattan's loth Avenue one morning last week three lizards sprawled in their crates and hissed their sullen woe. They were waiting for a U. S. customs officer to let them be hauled up to The Bronx Zoo. They could afford to wait. They had come a long way. In space it was 11,000 mi., from the Island of Komodo between Sumbawa and Flores in the Dutch East Indies. In time it was more than 60,000,000 years...
...been making cannon from the days of Louis XVI. With perfect impartiality it had supplied first the monarchy, then the republic, and then Napoleon's Empire with its products, bought the foundry (La Societe Generale des Hauts Feurneaux) for 2,500,000 francs--and were then forced to wait for almost twenty years for their first major war. War-promotion methods in those days were not what they were to become later in the century, but that gap was neatly bridged by the demands that the new steambeats and the even newer railroads were making on the producers of iron...
Champion Columbia must win every game to remain in the hunt; Dartmouth has the advantage of having lost fewer than anybody else, but has by far the longest route to travel; Yale must take six out of seven even to think of victory; Princeton--must wait another year...