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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three hundred newspapers in seven western States are carrying this help-wanted ad to lure white collar men to the railroads-to tamp ballast, replace ties, hoist the heavy rails. As war cargoes ride the rails and troopships wait at the railheads, workers on the roadbeds are needed more and more. But before it advertised for white-collar hands, Southern Pacific cautiously experimented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Weekend with Pay | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...Wait," said he, while he reread his instructions. "It says nothing; so do nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1943 | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...Rubinstein did not wait for the Nazis to throw him out of Germany. During World War I he was deeply shocked by the German treatment of Belgians and Poles. He vowed then that he would never play in Germany again, has never done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Peregrinating Pole | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...Arthur Tripp has authorized me to submit his name for membership in the Lefferts Park Baptist Church. Of course, we shall have to wait until after the war is over before you give him the right hand of fellowship. It has been a joy to witness the saving and keeping power of Jesus Christ. In many cases I have been, as it were, speaking as 'a dying man to dying men.' Pray that God will give me many souls for the Son of His Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: An Experience With the Lord | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...enough, but in a blackout--Vag swore softly. Then the match went out. Slightly scorched, Vag disencumbered himself and grasped the nearest solid object to heave himself up. With a groan the table collapsed, spilling comment books about him. That was the last straw. The paper should wait. Vag groped for the comment book, and propping himself securely in the corner, started at the pages by the dim light of his last match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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