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Word: waited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert C. Claflin '50, Key representative, disclosed that the Key is uncertain whether to have its proposed all-College dance this spring or to wait until the football season. The Key began its plan for its own dance as an independent source of income to avoid reliance on Student Council grants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Votes '50, '51, Dances; First Since War | 1/13/1949 | See Source »

...first target of the proponents of federal aid will be elementary and secondary schools--as in the Taft bill. Just, before Christmas, Truman's assistant, Dr. John Steelman, said that this part of the educational world has "the highest priority." This evidently means that colleges will have to wait, so far as Administration plans are concerned. That's all right with such backers of federal aid as the National Education Association, which lobbies for hundreds of thousands of schools-teachers. And the colleges will probably be content to wait, figuring that if the grade and high schools get it first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Federal Aid to Education: I | 1/13/1949 | See Source »

Columbia's Lorton Reformatory, then had to wait and see if the volunteers developed the expected thick "sinusitis-like" type of cold. Dr. Atlas and Biochemist George A. Hottle started looking for a way to speed up the testing process. Finally, in last week's issue of Science, they reported success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: MR-I | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...with her pretty thighs exposed, by her brutal nobleman husband whom she has been forced to marry, is beaten by him with a cudgel "not thicker than a man's thumb," and is kidnaped by Indians. This, presumably, is what readers of this kind of novel have been waiting for, but it is a long wait, and they are in for further dull stretches before virtue and justice at last prevail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Long Wait | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Choice of Weapons. In Norfolk, Va., Court Clerk Betty Jean Woolard reported that a woman, told to wait an hour for a pistol permit, had flounced out saying: "No, that would be too late. I guess I'll have to use a knife after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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