Word: waits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there anyone who doubts the soundness of an investment endorsed by every business man of the nation? The President has clearly set forth each citizen's duty. Shall we then wait for the first casualty lists to bring the war to our door...
...only natural that all the prose in this number should deal more or less directly with the war, or at least with soldiers. J. T. Rogers '18 contributes two stories: "Those who stand and wait" is a satirical study of an eloquent young pacifist who is forsaken, when the war comes, by all his disciples; "The Female of the Species" is a story in early-Kipling style, of a Prussian captain and the traditional seductive female spy. F. D. Perkins '19, in "The End of a Perfect Day," reproduces in amusing fashion the confused state of mind...
Yesterday the banks of Boston and Cambridge were kept busy well into the night filing applications. In many places the crowds had to wait in line before being able to get to the desk...
Inspection is the next thing to heaven if cleanliness is next to Godliness. The glorified soldiers might be pardoned a desire to flap their sprouting wings and fly away, bright gun and all, in the extasy of their scrubbed perfection. But instead they must wait in agony at attention while one man after another is damned with faint praise, or blasted with none...
Realizing this, realizing that now, entering the most terrible war that is recorded in history, we cannot permit even the minor loss of our resources, it would be folly to wait one day beyond the necessary in beginning that conservation which war has forced upon...