Word: waits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dogs are physiologically similar to humans, but the scientists warned laymen not to leap prematurely to an optimistic conclusion. Said they: "The proper analysis and evaluation of the present data must wait until statistically significant numbers are obtained...
...Carnegie Miller, 18, granddaughter of the late Andrew Carnegie; to James Frederick Gordon Thomson, 41, Edinburgh lawyer; at Dornoch, Scotland. Two years ago Miss Miller and Mr. Thomson, who have been close friends since she was 3, tried to elope, were persuaded by Miss Miller's mother to wait until she was of legal...
According to previous schedule a new Jefferson nickel was to appear this month as a successor to the buffalo nickel which has been in circulation since 1913. Last week the Bureau of the Mint announced that the public would have to wait till October. Reason: The Federal Fine Arts Commission did not like the original design (TIME, May 2), insisted on a new style of lettering on the coin, on changes in the detail of Thomas Jefferson's head on the obverse, on Artist Felix Schlag's redesigning the reverse so as to show Jefferson's home...
...make way for Happy is a matter of dispute. Friends of Senator Barkley, who has ambitions to be President, say he killed the idea, lest his path to the White House seem to have an unworthy detour in it. Franklin Roosevelt asked Happy to be a good boy and wait; his reward would come. But Happy said: "The time to run is when you're in office." He went ahead full steam...
Father Swann's son Isaiah, brought up with the other children of the commune, came back from Yale with misgivings about the Other Plane. He wanted to marry Dinah, the pretty, credulous ward of the Temple. Father Swann told him he had better wait. Meanwhile, Father Swann rarely got spirit communications any more; the Temple's mediums were out of practice. When the Temple went through its first crisis, a diphtheria epidemic, Father Swann ignored the advice of the spirit doctor and the spectral Association of Healthfulizers and cast out the Sore-Throat Devil...