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Word: waited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing is wrong with American radio, Kaltenborn insisted, that is not just as wrong with the whole country. He added that part of the public was materialistic, culturally immature, and so hungry for information that it would not wait for adequate confirmation of reports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Forum Panel Criticizes Standards of Radio Industry | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

Thomas A. Unverferth '51, spokesman for the Student Welfare Committee, said his group interpreted Reynolds's last statement to mean that the University is contemplating some positive action regarding student-owned cars and would wait until the Council of Deans moves before announcing its future plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deans Reject Pleas to Ease Parking Bans | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

There may be some sort of peace at the moment, as opponents of internationalization argued. But that peace will last only until one of the armies decides it is the stronger. And there are always the bomb-planters who cannot wait for official shooting to start. Bi-lateral treaties, even if made with all sincerity by leaders, can never assure unmolested access to Jerusalem's Shrines. If nations are going to allow the UN to use its powers, they must let it decide what is "likely" to destroy peace and act accordingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holy Peace? | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

...maintains its high number of concentrators, it can do so only at the expense of other departments, since the enrollment of the College has been fixed by administrative decree. But it will not increase its allotment of permanent appointments at the expense of other departments. It will have to wait for new money, in the form of either endowed chairs or gifts to the University for unrestricted purposes...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Faculty Allocation System Ignores Popularity Trends, Favors Consistency, Long-Range Plan | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

...them, to rubber-stamp John L. Lewis' next move in the coal crisis. For three days a small brigade of U.M.W. local officials, whom imperious John L. calls his policy committee, had plumped themselves down in Manhattan hotel rooms (at the union's expense) to wait. They slept, ate, drank, played poker, smoked cigars and just sat-until the boss should deem it appropriate to speak. The three-week coal truce was due to expire midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Amen | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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