Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This isn't very pressing and in fact those who pursue frankness to the point of rudeness have told us that it could wait indefinitely--but the time has come when one may remark upon the enormous consequences which have arisen from the contemporary Passing of Arthur...
...that any such reform can ever be effectively instituted without the sympathy and support of the students themselves. The question of cooperation in strictly educational problems is not so clear. For concrete proof of success of such a policy as that inaugurated by the Overseers, we will have to wait. Probably much will have to be done in organizing public opinion and in educating response before such proof can even be looked for. It is undeniable that the student has certain things to contribute to discussion and settlement of these problems, a keen and vital interest, a different approach...
...Half of them were begging letters, too; boasts from dressmakers, stores offering credit, lawyers offering advice. . . . Marie Drazdorf spent some of her savings for a new suit for her boy, but she told her man, Josef Raff, to keep on working like the steady man he was. They would wait for the fortune to come in July. Then she would give some money to Butcher Bachmann, who had been kind when she had her baby. Then they would see what they would do. ... Yes, Marie Drazdorf remembered a legend of an ancestor who went to the U. S. long...
...splendid examples of courage and quick-thinking on the part of students crossing the Avenue perhaps, as long as it is possible, the situation should be endured as a breeder of Spartan qualities. There are some, it is true, who display a shameful cowardice and always wait for a crowd of their fellows to collect before attempting to cross in a body, but they are confined to the more timorous, or to graduate students with families dependent on them. The average undergraduate can give, in the network of Mack trucks, taxi cabs in a hurry, thundering street-cars, and messenger...
...business interests U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg has been the nervous advocate; for the Church, Bishop Diaz has been the obstreperous protagonist. President Calles has been sending Secretary Kellogg temporizing notes; Bishop Diaz he threw out of Mexico. In the U. S. Bishop Diaz will wait until Mexican Catholics can organize an effective political party and throw out President Calles and his party...