Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Renoir did not have to wait for posthumous fame. In his own lifetime, collectors bought his pictures hungrily at prices that ranged up to $18,102. Today, of the 4,000-odd paintings he turned out, more than half are owned in the U. S. One U. S. collector, terrible-tempered Dr. Alfred ("Argyrol") Barnes of Merion, Pa., amassed the largest Renoir collection in the world...
...rulings on married registrants. The Gruman board policy makes more sense than most: the board uses the draft to solve unhappy marriages, does not draft the happily married. Example: a registrant whose wife appeared in a swank fur coat, said she had a job as a model, could hardly wait until her husband was in the Army and out of her sight. He was drafted...
...auctioning off the track's fixtures and equipment, many a nostalgic fan was on hand. For an hour and a half a red-faced auctioneer knocked down $2,000 worth of chairs, tables, other track paraphernalia. Suddenly he declared a recess. After a long wait he returned to tell the crowd that the auction was off, someone had taken an option on the track...
...pancreas duct, the digestive juice cells shrivel up, die. That gave him the great idea-how to get the digestive juices out of the way, to get at the spark-plug chemical. He wrote three sentences in a notebook: "Tie off pancreatic duct of dogs. Wait six to eight weeks for degeneration. Remove residue and extract." Then he went to bed, but probably not to sleep...
...Trip 21 lay dead in the dark, men were out looking for her. But until the sun came up, no one found her. Clad in pajamas or underwear, drenched in the cold rain, the survivors huddled on the ground or lay in the wreckage waiting for help. One man went to find it, fell in a ravine, stood in water until morning. When men with stretchers came on them at dawn, the nine who were alive grinned with blue lips. The seven dead, including Maryland's Congressman William Devereux Byron, had to wait...