Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next, he makes his way to the Delivery Room, fills out six application slips for the six different editions of the book catalogued, and hands these in. After a ten minutes' wait they are returned with the verdict: "All in use . . . for a month. Do you wish us to notify...
...latter-day advertising methods? Formerly applause here in College was given in a miserly fashion for lectures of exceptional brilliance. Now it comes, spontaneous and carefree, with all the joyous abandon of a front-row benchman at a political meeting. Some do not even have the decency to wait until the lecturer has departed before showing their enthusiasm...
...interesting comment on our much slandered civilization is contained in the extract reprinted below from the Rochester "Times Union". America, the writer complains, is in the midst of a period of looking on, an interested lethargy wherein the vast majority can only sit and wait,--for the game to begin, or the curtain to rise, while it toys with peanuts or peppermints as the case may be. Meanwhile Walter Camp is finding large sale for his "Daily Dozen" among the sedentary thousands who crowd offices in the morning, ball fields after lunch, and theatres in the evening; all because science...
Four years is a long time to wait, but everything must have an end. The Senior's day has come at last. For him the sun shines, for him the fountains and bands play, for him the girls smile and on their prettiest dresses. And for the first time in the last two weeks he is able to enjoy it all. His tickets of many colors have been distributed for better or for worse; his packing boxes stand ready in the hall; he has ended the bother of reading endless notices by memorizing the entire program for Commencement Week...
This motion of the sun is not peculiar, for, contrary to the earlier conceptions, all "fixed" stars appear in motion. The static universe of the ancients has become dynamic, and the astronomer may wait centuries for correct conclusions in regard to those motions of the more distant stars. Three things, however, seem well established as a result of study of both proper motions and radial velocities. These are: (1) the motion of the sun in space above mentioned; (2) the common motion of certain groups or clusters of stars, the two most notable examples of which are the Taurus...