Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When science has matured with age and develops that wisdom which age has already brought to religion, perhaps some great scientist will bring us the full truth which will completely reconcile science and religion. Or must we wait for that until we reach that better country where the limitations of the flesh, to which Dr. Steinmetz refers, no longer hampers us--where we shall no longer "see through a glass darkly but face to face", and where we will be with God--the great fountain of truth and love and light--forever...
...Bird and the Ink-Pot have abandoned their game with Puck, and will wait for the Spring day when they have their annual Bat, before meeting this year...
...period is, in other words, the interregnum when the defeated President is still the chief executive. Someone noticed the futility of this system and the Norris Resolution came into being. It provides that the members of the new Congress shall assemble in December immediately following their election, rather than wait thirteen months as under the present method. Furthermore, it provides that the President shall be inaugurated the third Monday in January. Thus the new President and Congress come into power almost simultaneously, and as someone expressed it: "The will of the people as evinced by the elections does not have...
...scene was worthy of Zane Grey or the author of "Gunsight Pass"; thousands driven down into the subways for safety, fences broken down and traffic held up in every direction, and all twelve of the Cambridge police force functioning as cowboys, armed with lassoes and lying in wait behind mail-boxes...
...never expect such a favorable condition to exist again. In any future war to which we may be involved, the enemy must come from the sea in some direction; and, as stated above, the Navy cannot afford to wait in our harbors until the enemy arrives, but must go out to meet him, to occupy the ports or places on his probable line of approach, etc. To do this, the Navy must not only have suitable ressels to accompany the fighting vessels to carry fuel, ammunition and supplies, but there must be suitable vessels to transport troops to hold bases...