Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disappeared for a time. Per contra, he once jumped from his bed in the middle of the night, intent on performing a newly conceived experiment, rushed to the Neva (on the other side of which stood his father's laboratory), plunged in and swam across. "I could not wait. The ferryboat was delayed," said...
...want to express the appreciation many of us here feel for your way of editing the news. You treat affairs like an artist. . . . The dailies dump the news. We scan their columns and wait for TIME to tell. For you present affairs in a way that arouses interest, even causes emotion. Then your English is so finished! It reminds me personally of what Anatole France recounts of Denon and Louis XV: "When anything happened, the monarch would say, 'Tell us about it, Denon...
...there will not-or should not be-submarines lying in wait to make the passage difficult as it was in 1917, but there will be other shipping problems. Already a committee has been at work making preparations for the pilgrimage. At first they approached the United States Lines, but found that they could not accommodate the entire sailing in such a brief space of time as was necessary according to the Legion's plans. So the committee approached English and French lines as well. Last week it was announced that the committee had made a number of agreements calling...
...letter means of academic instruction in the history of art," wrote Dr. Bode, "could be found than such a systematic collection of casts." He deplored the indifference of most of the Berlin museum experts in this matter, and asks: "And the Government? Does it perhaps wait for Americans to show their appreciation of our help, in establishing the Germanic Museum at Harvard, by giving us a building for our collections of German casts...
...cure for epilepsy, there is none for distemper, scourge of dogs. Almost all have it at some time, but those that have it badly, even if they do not die, are generally done for. Blinded, paralyzed or twisted, they can only find a spot in a stable-yard and wait for death. Hard is the lot of yellow alley-dogs, which often have no place to go; they must drag themselves about from corner to corner, pushing a pair of useless front legs or perhaps pulling their bodies behind them like billets because their hind-legs are shriveled...