Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more collided with the Secretaries of War and Navy. He ruled that allowances to " indigent parents " of army and navy officers are illegal, and made his ruling retroactive; so some officers will have thousands of dollars deducted from their future pay. Secretaries Weeks and Denby are powerless and must wait till Congress reassembles to get relief for their subordinates. Mr. McCarl's ruling was based on the fact that in some cases the privilege had been abused to get extra pay for officers whose families are well...
...That President Harding in his letter to Mr. Wesley Wait, insisting on the obligation of states to exercise their power under the concurrent provision of the 18th Amendment (TIME, May 28), had voiced a "fundamental misconception." To insist that it is a state's duty, Governor Smith maintained, to pass the same laws as Congress, is to deny the fundamental rights of states under the Constitution...
...coach then consented to play in Boston if Braves Field could be secured. Further complications arose, however, when the manager of Braves Field announced last night that he had already entered into negotiations with Boston College and Holy Cross for a game on that date. The H.A.A. will wait until the plans of these colleges are made known before final arrangements will be completed...
...except this one, but the fair creatures insist that they should have the right to slash one another's cheeks open with swords. An American student at the Uni-versity before the war was admitted to one of the celebrated dueling clubs - an almost unprecedented honor. After a wait of a few weeks he was called upon to take part in a duel. It is an inviolable rule that the opponents may cut, parry and lunge,, they may also move in any direction, but they cannot under any circumstance duck, their heads to avoid a blow-scars...
...contain valuable manuscripts yet undiscovered. There is still plenty of chance for further archacologizing. But why should a man wish to dig up his supposed ancestors! If it be merely to test the efficacy of the curse to fall on the desecrator of her grave, he might well wait until Sir Conan Doyle has definitely proved the existence of real spooks and "genil loci...