Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other 17 officers and men got overside into two lowered boats. The men watched the Bold Venture go down. Until almost the last moment, her electric lights continued to blaze. After a wait of only two hours a Canadian corvette had picked them...
...boys may be stocking up on clothes because they're afraid to wait any more. So that's why clothes sell O.K. But nobody needs to stock up on butts," said another counter...
...substitute, the London Daily Mirror's acidulous Columnist Cassandra wrote: "No hen ever laid egg or eyes on Peak Egg. . . . Take eight ounces of ordinary flour and two ounces of bicarbonate of soda, add a little dye and just a trace of gum. Mix well . . . relax and wait for the great unending public of British suckers...
...Pediatricians used to vie with each other to see who could find the earliest age to give infants solid foods. One even fed meat to toothless three-month-olds. But now doctors generally stick to milk, wait for a few teeth before feeding babies solids. As for the transition from bottle to cup, Dr. Aldrich suggests placing a cup on baby's feeding tray, waiting till he starts to play with it and tries to drink...
Industrial use of 1,000,000-volt machines had to wait until they became compact and light (1,500 lb.) enough to be slung easily from a crane and aimed this way & that upon intricate pieces of machinery. The new giants have two great industrial advantages: 1) they can see through thicker metals, 2) they can do the work of smaller machines in less time...