Word: waits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stated that they will not submit the documents of the Union to their successors, nor will they admit the constitutionality of anything done at the meeting yesterday. As they have possession of the archives, the end of the interesting struggle seems not to be near by. The college will wait with feverish excitement for the outcome of the political fruit or job which is certain to make an appearance before many days. For the present no serious outbreak need be expected, and affairs will probably remain tranquil, with a chance that the contestants will not resort to violence until after...
...stiff breeze blowing straight up the course, and making the water lumpy, and for a little while it seemed to grow worse instead of mending. At the starting place the mill-dam was thronged with buggies loaded with spectators, which set off Bostonward the moment the race started. The wait at the bridge was exceedingly tedious, the cold wind dampening the ardor of the most excited...
...government constitution like ours, it is to be feared that the Inter-State Commerce law will be abolished while it is in the beginning of its operation and that the people will not wait until the good results which must finally ensue have been realized...
...papa," he says, "of course nobody would want to belong to the class of nothing at all. Everybody would make fun of a fellow, and he never will feel as if he amounted to anything. If I can't enter college when I'm seventeen, I'd rather wait over a year and go in the class of '97, for then at least I'll be in the class of '01." The father laughs at the boy and teases him, but he says the youngster has taken the matter so seriously to heart that he is not sure whether even...
...welfare in charge, to institute some graded system, by which the classes should draw for rooms in order of their seniority. What is left after they have what they want, could go to the sub-freshmen. These boys have four years of chances before them, and can afford to wait...