Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ships, before docking in U. S. harbors, must wait in quarantine until health conditions aboard have been approved by port health inspectors. Only newspapermen and certain public officials from shore may go aboard during the wait. *Mrs. Woods is niece of J. P. Morgan...
...going to die. There would be a priest if he was going to die." The Killers is about two men who go into a restaurant to shoot Ole Anderson. First they put the cook and the waiter in the kitchen. Then they talk to the proprietor and wait for Ole Anderson to come in. At five minutes to seven they decide he is not coming in. Nick ? the cook ? goes to see Anderson at his house. He says: " 'They were going to shoot you when you came in to supper.' 'There isn't any thing...
When the realization finally came that to wait was futile, Dartmouth tried valiantly to snake dance with all the abandon that the occasion required, but the spell had been broken: Their enthusiasm had been self-suppressed in its spontaneous state, in the cause of sports-manlike conduct--not to insult their opponents with a contempt for the victory. A Harvard football scalp is still a cherished prime in Hanover, though not to be valued higher than a tradition of courtesy...
...Wait a moment, please...
...rule, while at Oxford, although the four year degree is more common, it is possible to take a degree in three years. At Harvard, although the work of four years may be completed in three years by taking extra courses and by summer study, the student must wait four years for his degree...