Word: waits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hard to wait and wait...
...Sloth, was likewise garmented. "Pray, sirs," quoth he, "where can I register my name among those who are blessed?" Worldly Wise, with an ill-hidden smile of scorn, replied, "Don't register at all." "Nay, but I must," the hero replied. "Then sit upon that step," said Sloth, "and wait." So Lighthead waited, and the noon past and evening came - but no one else. Then he, feeling the day was cold, got up and departed. That night he thought much of his home, and wept...
...nature is art otherwhere," declared the Sage. "Man has found this inextricably true. It is the omnipresence of the Over-soul, the gauge of the hereafter. And there is no other. Wherefore let us wait...
...took the time of the slowest watch as the record. Mr. W. B. Curtis, of the Spirit of the Times, however (one of the best judges of athletics in the country), states it as his opinion that the race was faster than 10 seconds; but we must wait now for the spring for Myers to make the record. Another feature of the meeting was the running of Mr. J. B. Harriman in the 1/4-mile run "for boys, 16 years and under." With a field of 16 starters, in the final heat he easily took the lead and kept it without...
...give as much time to each one as is essential to intelligent progress; and in view of this fact, some step should be taken to make the course equally profitable to all who have elected it for the purpose of getting the best results. To expect a student to wait a half hour for his turn with the instructor without losing his equanimity, to say nothing of the waste of time, is unreasonable. The course is too valuable and popular to hope for a reduction in the number from voluntary changes of electives, while the expenses already incurred...