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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...registrant objects to his classification, he can appeal to regional boards (one for every 600,000 population). In theory, he can even appeal to the President. But the Army does not propose to let appeals and delays gum up the draft ("War is not going to wait while every slacker resorts to endless appeals. . . ."). In effect, the word of regional appeal boards will be final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: How It Works | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...wide variety of jobs, most of them at present are seeking work which will earn room or board or both, Duhig said. For room, the students tend furnaces, cut lawns, wash windows, and do other chores taking an hour a day; for board, they wash dishes or wait on table...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 200 MEN BACK TO SEEK JOBS | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

Mothers Have to Wait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUCH CLERICAL WORK CAUSED BY COLLEGE REGISTRATION | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

Fathers who accompany their sons are permitted to run the regisration gauntlet with their progeny, but mothers are politely seated at the east end of the Hall and told to wait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUCH CLERICAL WORK CAUSED BY COLLEGE REGISTRATION | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

After a patient wait, death came last week to Hans Zinsser, bacteriologist, physician, philosopher, poet, ironist, historian, raconteur. At 61, he died of chronic leukemia, a slow-moving, mysterious disease of the blood for which there is no known cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Romantic Self | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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