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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another field, there would seem to be a strong possibility that a degree in literature will be offered. If so, leading contenders appear to be either Lewis Mumford or W. H. Auden. Elsewhere over the weekend, Helen Hayes, a leading female candidate for a degree, did not wait for Harvard to start celebrating her 50th year in the theater. She received a degree from St. Mary's College on Saturday in South Bend, Indiana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honorary Degree in Music May Be Offered This Year | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...that life was Hitler's; Himmler took potassium cyanide. Gestapo is a bold and worthwhile attempt to understand something of these monstrous men and of their strange decade, but in fact it explains very little. The mass of evidence in the Nürnbergr records may have to wait a long time for its rightful historian. In Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of Night & Fog | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...tennisplayer dislikes these wind-blasted plains he can find 14 more cement lawns at the Business School, one (closed) at Leverett House, and five remote clay courts at Radcliffe. Or he can join a country club. But if he decides to stay here to play, he may have to wait as long as an hour for one of Harvard's prize hard courts, especially on a sunny weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Menace to Tennis | 5/11/1956 | See Source »

...scholarships. Every year they take these forms to their rooms and stare at them for nervous hours until, in desperation, they create a collection of numbers with which to fill the small boxes on this form. This done, they return the forms to the Financial Aid Office and wait hopefully for a grant of assistance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Red Tape | 5/9/1956 | See Source »

...shot for his pains. Adolf marries his Eva and prepares his suicide. "The German people," he says bitterly, "are not worthy of me." In the canteen a girl dances dreamily in a corner, starts to unbutton her blouse. In the conference room of Hitler's apartment, his aides wait tensely. The shot rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

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