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Word: waiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...similar beneficial results may ensue from the conferences which are so soon to be tried here. Everything so far is progressing smoothly, three out of the four classes have elected their delegates, a date for meeting has been appointed by the faculty, and we have only a week to wait before learning the result of the preliminary conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/14/1885 | See Source »

...will not do to wait till spring, and then join. If this be attempted, the grass upon the grave of this once flourishing society will be as green as the most verdant freshman in the freshwater colleges of Ohio. Now is the time, now is the opportunity, and now, we are sure, are plenty of men ready and willing to put their shoulders to the wheel and help the society out of the mire in which a too sanguine management has placed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/4/1885 | See Source »

...president of Columbia college says that five minutes is long enough time to wait for a tardy prof, before a bolt is indulged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/3/1885 | See Source »

...well to the sound of the flute, violin, guitar and human voice. But however well I may get on during the day and evening, I find that I cannot sleep while my friends are making their music. As I write, the hour is past ten P. M. I am waiting for one violin to stop. All the other instruments became silent some time ago As soon as the violin stops, I shall go to bed. Later. It has stopped; but the violinist has begun to sing. I must wait another hour. Perhaps, if this is printed. It may catch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1884 | See Source »

...truthful, and it rests satisfied with the work of its single chronicler. To properly satisfy '88 would take a book as long as the Iliad, and to write one now in the midst of football and forensics, theatres and dinners, lectures and recitations, is asking too much; '88 must wait until the long vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/19/1884 | See Source »

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