Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again the astonished query of the new Freshman on being required to wait in line for a shower with his tutor is answered by exposition of the doctrine that 'One shower bath with a tutee is worth forty weeks of feet on the table and smoking a pipe.' Complaint against the quality of the meal served in one of the House dining rooms is met by the familiar, "Nonsense. Our laboratory experts have discovered that there is nothing better to eat at one o'clock on Thursdays." Finally the newcomer is told that his unit is his club and that...
...Young, "when I said I was going to suggest a boy 32 years old to handle that great piece of machinery, and it is certainly a great satisfaction that he has given such a striking demonstration of what an American youth can do. We don't have to wait until he is 50 or 60 to give him a place of power...
...river, below McKinlock Hall, must be governed by its remoteness from the greater part of the University. To build more Houses here for College undergraduates would be impractical considering the distances from Widener Library the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, and the Museum. Perhaps the disposal of this land must wait until the center of Harvard population has been definitely shifted south, away from the Yard...
...mailed fist inaugurated at Belgrade is no surprise to Italians. Centuries-old hatreds are pointed against us. We shall wait until developments mature. We shall examine our position for any eventuality...
...their histories. Shrewd men buy them to sell. More and more potent becomes the last-named reason. The shy bibliophile who has picked up some musty, stained bibelot in a sulphurous basement often has apologetic recourse to the sales value of his purchase. Criticized, he will smile slyly, hint: "Wait and see what I can raise on it!" Under cover of this practical sounding alibi he conceals his curious love to finger old vellum, to scan rough, archaic type, to possess a fragment of the 18th century...