Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall has been a near or a complete sell-out, and acted accordingly by limiting ticket applications at the outset, then they should have announced the ticket ration as soon as it became apparent that the game was to be a sell-out. Instead, the H.A.A. chose to wait until the very eve of the game...
...Field decided that ads would go in, rolled out to St. Louis on a lecture tour. He had, he said, three projects in mind: to be a radio commentator, to edit a national magazine, to complete four books for which he had already written the outlines. All three could wait, said he, while he retired to his farm at Lakeville (Conn.) to "do a little quiet living for a while...
Reached by the CRIMSON yesterday, the Director of the College Observatory said that he could take no positive action in the matter now and that he would wait for the next move by Rankin and the House committee presumably on Friday...
Half-way or lower down a long priority list, the average University resident student seeking a precious telephone, may have to wait as long as three additional months before his number comes up. That is the latest word on a constantly changing situation, according to B. A. Dwyer, Manager of the Cambridge Branch Office of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company...
London fog, source of endless inspiration to cinema scriptwriters, is just a headache to season-ticket-holders (British for commuters). On the 20 to 40 days each winter when visibility falls below 200 yards, the Reading, Chelmsford and Maidstone trains creep along at 30 m.p.h., often wait 20 minutes at junctions, reach London as much as two hours late. Last week British railway technicians were hard at work trying to do something about fog-foundered trains. They had two novel gadgets, both still in the experimental stage, which might make it possible for trains to keep up their usual clip...