Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although modern charts, unlike the old "T"--maps of the Middle Ages, are no longer encircled with the horrors lying in wait for the unfortunate who voyaged too far into the unknown, and although explorers of the present can maintain radio contact with the world outside, the fascination of the Far North still remains. When Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, who speaks this afternoon at the Union, made his historic voyage in the "Fram" over a generation ago, which took him neither the Pole than any other explorer had ever been, he travelled without wireless, and for months completely out of touch...
Premier Baldwin spoke at Reading and Bewdley to enormous crowds. At Reading he said: " I never thought there was a sufficiently large bed in this country to hold Asquith and Lloyd George, but they have climbed into the same one, and I think we will wait until morning to see which has kicked the other out." At Bewdley he outlined his general policy and said he knew what he was up against. The opposition seized upon the salient point of the Premier-his pipe. Free Trade posters depicted him smoking " Baldwin twist" in it and producing fumes labeled " high prices...
...points M. Poincaré's speech was almost defiant in tone. Said he: "If tomorrow we have to defend our security, we will not have to wait the good pleasure of any one. . . . Our security is above all assured by consolidation of the territories which we occupy. As long as Germany does not show herself pacific, we will remain on our guard. As long as the Treaty has not been entirely fulfilled, we will not abandon the left bank of the Rhine. . . . We would have liked to have had the conference of Ambassadors demand at once either extradition...
...Critics. Laurence Stallings: u If the narrative pauses for one moment and Mr. Bennett perceives an open basement door, the whole book must wait while he ransacks the dwelling of interest...
...oblivion obscured by some new structure which dwarfs the present one. But for undergraduates of today there is no game in all past history which can compare with the one in the little stadium across the river, and games and stadiums of the future may care for themselves and wait their turn to attract their future tens of thousands...