Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repair. Then she ran into a heavy storm, was forced to take shelter in the lee of an island. Never a good sailor, Samuel Insull tossed sickishly about on his little freighter reeking of stale oil and garlic and whimpered that shiploads of U. S. pirates were lying in wait to kidnap him. At the last moment the French Government decided to forbid his landing at Djibouti, French Somaliland, chief port of entry for Abyssinia...
Telephone & Telegraph. A Communications Commission with power over telephone, telegraph and cable companies similar to that of the Interstate Commerce Commission over railroads has been formally recommended by the President. But it can wait...
...learned that Newman had sworn out an assault warrant against him.- Then he quietly slipped out of the House of Representatives, disappeared. Presently two Washington detectives appeared at Statesman Shoemaker's Capitol office. His secretary assured them that the Minnesota Representative was not in. They decided to wait and see. Twice the secretary went home, twice returned. The third time, just before midnight, the secretary found the detectives ambushed in a dark corridor. He went into the ofifice, emerged grinning: "If you're waiting for Mr. Shoemaker, he will be glad to see you now." Statesman Shoemaker...
...cross the great Southern Arabian Desert (1930), and H. St. John Philby, a later traveler, encountered natives who told them of a once magnificent city buried in the sands. Aware of this, some archeologists hesitated to throw too much cold water on the Malraux bulletin, preferred to wait and see the photographs which lucky l'Intransigeant was expecting...
...academic significance of this diatribe is that an educational institution cerebrates on its belly, and good scholarship must wait upon a balanced menu. Were the authorities to focus upon the problem under their noses, the path would straightway be cleared for the furtherance of the humanities. And incidentally pruning the bully beef and mutton chop outlay would not only finance the purchase of greens but might net Lehman Hall a tidy little surplus as well. Rhodes P. Frothingham...