Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first point is calculated to be before October 10; the second about November 1; the third about December 1. Averaging these three dates, would put the result about where the operators want it. The theory of miners' tactics is to wait until accumulated coal is sold or until public officials intervene (the latter being a consummation devoutly undesired by operators? or, at least, so the miners think.) Then the miners hope to wring concessions from the operators...
...Lily who couldn't say boo to a goose. But she scrimped and saved and cooked, gave up the lover who would have carried her off to South America, sent Victor to Harvard, petted him when he flunked out and came home to loaf, feet on fender, in wait for a suitable business position and in self-pitying anguish over the rebuff a New York bud had given his rustic advances. While the rest of the country freed the slaves, built fortunes, warred with Spain, the Campions were claimed by frustration, poverty and middle...
...female moths, sawflies having propogated themselves for nine generations without male assistance. So also the cancer germ, recently discovered (TIME, July 27, MEDICINE) -it was about to be shown in cinema. The learned men and women treated de omni re scibili et quibusdam aliis, and then went home to wait the official publication of what had been said...
...French problem now seems to be rather a race with time than a battle with the Riffs. After Sept. 15 they can no longer count on good weather. It is improbable that they can gain a decisive victory before the winter rain sets in, and then they must wait until April for fair days. This week's successes place them in a strong position for organizing themselves to hold their present territory over the winter. The Morocco-Algerian railway is now well behind the front and not subject to raids as it has been in the past few weeks...
This is proof that Gandhi is still cooperating with the Swarajists; but whether the latter will cooperate with the Government, as they have tended recently to do, will have to wait over until Lord Reading (now in London) again takes up the duties of Viceroy. Just what the result of Lord Reading's conversations with Lord Birkenhead, Secretary for India, have been, and precisely how it will affect British policy in India, are matters now on the threshold of the known. Whatever they are, they cannot fail to be highly important to the political welfare of the Empire...