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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese submarine I-58 (TIME, Dec. 24), had surfaced for a breath of fresh air, had seen a "dark object" on a converging course. Fair across the "Indy's" bow, all Hashimoto had to do was fire six torpedoes (five of them had magnetic warheads), sit back and wait for the explosions. There were still unanswered questions: more than 800 of the Indy's crew had got off the ship-why had there been no search planes for four days? Who on the Leyte, communications staff had bungled in failing to report the ship overdue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: The Good of the Service | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...mean any cake at the box office but for heaven's sake he's one of the world's foremost musicians, and unless someone takes an interest in what he's doing the public will never know his work. What are we going to do, wait until his 150th anniversary to do a program? The guy won't be around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chicago Cuts a Cake | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...state health officer told Dr. Hayes to wait until there was an epidemic before she made a formal complaint. The Shawmut Mining Co. said they could do nothing: they had been in receivership since 1905 and in another six years the mines would be worked out and abandoned. But her father had doctored the 400-odd miners and their families for 40 years before her time and she felt responsible for them. Dr. Betty resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Betty Cleans Up | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...Font's Dr. Crawford H. Greene-wait: pure speculation -perhaps three years, perhaps ten, perhaps longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms for Horsepower? | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...emptying; its final issue (dated Dec. 28) was on the way to presses in eight countries. Its circulation, once 2.6 million in 16 editions, was down to 1.2 million and dropping fast as the Army dwindled. Two-thirds of its staff was discharged, and the rest could hardly wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of Yank | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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