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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...across the Atlantic. Since diplomats are notoriously human, they feel pleased and relieved to have gained so much, and can face their promises to pay with something more of a swagger. "When France and Germany have agreed to agree," said Dr. Stresemann, "your American interest rates will fall, you wait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RIFT IN THE LUTE | 10/21/1925 | See Source »

...conclusions as to the exact reasons for the destruction of the dirigible were obliged to wait on the final findings of the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shenandoah Court | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

Hero Waiter. At a Scarborough hotel was found a waiter who would not wait upon bona fide Russian Communists, of whom there were a few at the Congress. For so refusing he was hailed by conservatives as a hero, received 60 letters of congratulation containing numerous cash enclosures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: At Scarborough | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...wait forever. And, unfortunately for him, there is a double exposure that blots him out of the picture. One night he creeps into the dark room where Gita is developing her image of Surgeon Geoffrey Pelham. Eustace falls back on the fallacy that passion breeds passion. Taking him for a burglar she pinks his shoulder with a Colt. That brings Surgeon Geoffrey into the house pretty often and he in turn brings Gita's endocrines into their own. One night while he rows her through the moonlit salt marshes she has to admit it. Compunction for Eustace is hardly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ductless Patter* | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...countrymen in the Rhineland, Catholic and Protestant, would not understand if our craving for deliverance from the state of oppression passed over in silence. We live under heavy burdens. Remember, we disarmed to live in an armed world. We wait for the promised general disarmament to be able to believe in peace. In the present condition of the League of Nations we can't find any religious character or any communion with the Kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Stockholm | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

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