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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical researchers have been trying for years to prove that people with a particular blood type are especially prone to certain diseases. Example: Type O blood is supposed to run with a high rate of peptic ulcer. Wait, says a hardheaded Swiss, Geneva's Dr. Alexander Manuila, in the A.M.A. Journal. It may be true, but cannot be proved by available data-the claims have been based on inadequate studies and inaccurate statistics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Sep. 1, 1958 | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...observers in Munich who agreed with Murphy was Apostolic Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli. Years later, after the liberation of Rome. Diplomat Robert Murphy saw Pacelli again, grinned: "Do you remember the reports which we agreed to send about Hitler?" Replied Eugenio Pacelli. by this time Pope Pius XII: "Now Robert, wait a minute. Don't you even mention papal infallibility. That was long before I became Pope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Five-Star Diplomat | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...even thunder. ¶ Collection of Radioactive debris that can travel up to 1,200 miles a day at a height of 40,000 ft. Touchy about having air patrols over their territory, the Russian scientists at first balked at the idea of using planes, insisted that collection must wait until the debris could be gathered on the ground. Eventually, the scientists agreed on the right to use both methods. Debris is no help in measuring fallout caused by explosions in space. ¶ Electromagnetic radiation. Control posts, equipped with photocells and low-frequency radio receivers could pick up the X rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISARMAMENT: Spirit of Geneva, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Unwilling to wait, Academy President Charles Wheeler hastily inserted a "personal" in the famed front-page classified advertising section of the London Times

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Girl in Cherry Ripe | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...careerists who are more interested in self-advancement than the good of the group are exposed and punished. A bourgeois, bureaucratic superintendent is lampooned in the hassle that arises from the assigning of apartments. But through it all, the hero and the heroine work at their interior decoration and wait patiently for the fruits of love and Marxism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: My Fair Comrade | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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