Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their last year of secondary schools who have been accepted by the College will be advised to wait until the fall before entering, on the theory that it is better for a class to enter as a unit. The fate of this ruling now lies, according to Dean Buck and Gummere, largely in the lap of Congress, and depends on the action they take on the draft. If by May 15 Selective Service Boards are continuing to draft 18 year olds, then the admission policy may be changed to allow high school seniors to get one or two terms...
Angrier than ever, the Navymen obediently kept mum. Merger could wait until tempers cooled...
...Shirley-Savoy Hotel ballroom, Barbara & friends watched with a professional air as sister delegates demonstrated good manners. Everyone enjoyed most the skits showing horrible examples (see cut). The skit which got the loudest applause: "Monopolizing the Telephone while the Rest of the Family Wait...
...long would it take to reform Japanese education? Barnard's Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve, one of the traveling educators, said: "We'll have to wait 25 years to see how it works out." Guessed Chairman Stoddard: "A long time-decades...
...voice men's chorus sang: Though they had wings on the brain, They all went flat on their nose. . . . Narrator Orson Welles reverently intoned: "Wait, I thought I heard a child crying...