Word: waits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eventual result of this research may be a vaccine against measles. But there are immediate results which Columbia's efficient publicity department promptly caused Dr. Broadhurst to advocate. Said she: "Nurses and doctors will no longer be forced to wait until a rash or fever appears before they know whether a sore throat signifies merely a cold or presages the measles. They will now be able to place a specimen of mucus from nose and throat stained by nigrosin under a microscope and tell in a moment whether or not the virus bodies that cause the measles are present...
...coincidence the cousin and uncle arrived on the same train. He was waiting for them, a cigar in one pocket, a package of Beechnut in another, and a determination in his mind to collect within short order the price of two tickets. He saw them descend from different Pullmans at the same moment. Rushing to the uncle on the right, he cried, "Wait a minute, Cousin Arthur is approaching on my left!" His uncle-by-marriage looked startled and gave the porter only a quarter instead of fifty cents. Already the Vagabond had raced one Pullman length and accosted...
...stock issues threw the conversion plan askew. When the offering was finally made, Pure Oil common had fallen to $17 per share. As a result stockholders who had first rights to the stock took only 8,040 shares. The underwriters then took over the balance, impounded the stock to wait for a better market. Before this move was announced, however, a number of speculators sold the stock short, planning to even up when the balance of the stock was issued. Now that the stock has been impounded, it is impossible for shorts to cover since only 8,040 shares...
Harlow meanwhile will wait on the doctor's orders in an attempt to achieve as nearly as possible the eleven which started against Princeton. Several of these positions are still definitely in doubt due to hangovers from the Princeton and Army games...
Regarding leadership of these boys, why invoke the "authorities"? The disastrous results are immediate. Footballs are stolen, cars are looted, Dunster House suffers, students are heckled in the streets, and even the Yard rings to the yells of boys belligerently flying the flag of sour grapes. Rather than wait for action from the University in outfitting their vacant lots, why not act ourselves? Phillips Brooks House is not overtaxed. In Cambridge settlement houses Harvard men can do a world of good, if only to themselves. Since it is the student body that suffers from these potential criminals, students...