Word: waits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Towards evening they pulled up on a deserted country road a few miles north-west of Boswell, Okla. and decided to wait for dark. Farmer Trimmer, a silent man, was-still at the wheel, with Pete Traxler beside him, a gun in his lap. Behind Trimmer sat Tindol also with a gun and across the seat sat graying little James Denton-whose middle name was Ethel because his parents hoped for a girl- wondering what his wife and three children would do if the badmen decided to kill him when dark came. Traxler and Tindol, who had been living...
...hours later Serbia's beloved Patriarch expired. In no mood to wait until next autumn, when the Concordat goes for ratification to the Senate. Orthodox zealots attacked two Skupshtina members who had voted for ratification. Police rescued them but their clothes were in shreds...
Meanwhile Leader Blum had arrived quietly from Paris, his secretaries exuding confidence and saying, "Just wait and see." After some hours of Congress wrangling, Socialist Blum rose in the late afternoon, introduced himself with a sentence which set every cartoonist in France to scratching: "I shall not speak as God or as Caesar, but as for my stewardship as Premier for 13 months, I do not think that the record...
They Won't Forget (Warner Bros.). On Confederate Memorial Day (April 26) the little town of Flodden, Ga., takes a half holiday. In the town park, a handful of tottering Civil War veterans doze and chatter while they wait to march in the parade. At the Buxton Business College classes are dismissed early and the school's principal is surprised when one of the girls, pretty Mary Clay (Lana Turner) comes back to the classroom to get a vanity case she has forgotten. At the town cemetery, the show-going old Governor pays sincere tribute to the dead...
Mice are adult at the age of twelve weeks, "old men" at two years. Six weeks after birth they are quite tame and can be taught tricks (climbing ladders, working treadmills). They are ready to mate at the age of seven weeks, but wise breeders wait until the buck has reached ten weeks, the doe twelve. Each buck has six wives at a time, but every couple of months all but one doe are taken out to give the buck a rest. A mouse is pregnant 19 to 21 days, litters are from five to ten mouselets. Bucks are never...