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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover its blitzweeds with bright new stores and office buildings. Plans have been drawn for a Rockefeller Center-like project topped by a 27-story building. Two weeks ago Sir Winston Churchill abolished the controls which have held back reconstruction in the City of London. Business had to wait while materials and labor went first to building homes for homeless Britons-a program which achieved 350,000 new homes in one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Present Prosperity | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Midyear exams have been shifted to a point in early January, the authorities said, because the two weeks of classes which now divide Christmas vacation and midyears are an academically representative period. Since Yale has no needing period, students tend to ignore their classes during these weeks and to wait for the actual exam period before studying in earnest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long Spring Vacation, Early Midyear Exams In New Yale Schedule | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Brown, Yale, and Cornell each took two positions on the Tiger all-opponent team, while Colgate and Pennsylvania have one apiece. The team; ends, Cochran (Harvard) and John Merris (Cornell); tackles, Jim Doughan (Yale); backs, Gianelly (Harvard), Wait Hynoski (Penn), Pete Kohut (Brown), and Dick Meade (Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Caldwell Selects Opponent Eleven | 11/27/1954 | See Source »

...Winning!" With victory, Ho Chi Minh's prestige reached a new high in Asia. Nationalists of many lands, for all their objection to Communism, could not help taking pride in the exploits of an Asian army against their old masters from Europe. Indo-China's wait-and-seeists no longer needed to wait and see. "We are winning! Why stay with the losers?" cried Viet Minh women, urging Vietnamese soldiers to desert. "Do you want your sons to curse your names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Land of Compulsory Joy | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

Roses in the Deserts. Able New York Industrialist Morehead Patterson, appointed by President Eisenhower to press negotiations with the other "have" nations, promised to "move fast." But the U.S. was not going to wait for creation of the agency itself. To get Eisenhower's program started in spirit and fact, the U.S. offered a proposition of its own. It was ready, said Lodge, to conclude bilateral agreements with other nations to help them build and operate research reactors; the U.S. would furnish technical advice and help, and supply fissionable materials. In addition, the U.S. would throw open a large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNITED NATIONS: America's Atomic Plan | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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