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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge, did you wait until forced by public opinion to remove Attorney General Daugherty and Secretary Denby from your Cabinet? You know the record of Mr. Daugherty. You heard the evidence which has been brought out at the hearing. And why, Mr. Coolidge, did you permit William J. Burns, the great international detective, to use his agents of the Bureau of Investigations to break into the office of Senator LaFollette and to spy upon the members of the Senator Brookhart committee while that committee was conducting its inquiry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Alarums & Excursions | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

Your editorials of last Friday may prove "the shot heard 'round the world", and, if so, may shock--or shame--an ungrateful University to appreciation. Donald Wait Keyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications | 10/1/1924 | See Source »

...kick-off moved to centre of field (from 40-yd. line), or, on wet grounds, "to a point directly behind" ?in which case the receiving team may lie in wait no less than ten yards away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King Football | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...wait any longer; I have just remembered that I did not bring a trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: No Trunk | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...capacity of the population for absorbing desert island stories is truly tremendous. There are probably a dozen a year; and each one set on the same founda tion. It is always a question whether or not the girl and the man should live together on the island. Sometimes they wait till they get home again. This time they did not. Back in England, the villagers were not so nice about it when the girl returned. Therefore, in the interests of general contentment, back came the hero, too, and married her. Those chiefly concerned are Bebe Daniels, Richard Dix, two airplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 15, 1924 | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

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