Word: expect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Through this merger, we expect our profits to increase between ?400,000 and ?500,000, and to effect the savings of another ?400,000 to ?500,000 through elimination of duplication...
Alluding to Alexander Alekhine, who wrested from Capablanca the chess championship of the world, last December, he said: "Naturally I expect to regain the championship...
Alligators, as mascots of the University of Florida football team, may add color to the recently scheduled contest for the fall of 1929. When the peninsula team invaded the Stadium in 1922, the voracious reptiles were included in the trip and there is every reason to expect their reappearance two years hence...
...expert in armaments. As long as things are left to him, we can expect armaments and more armaments. Only statesmen, who know how to keep the naval experts in their places, who strike out body, with their eyes on a common policy, can give the world what it requires...
...devout but too-refined lady infected with medievalism is married to a rich banker. Finding in his library a copy of Boccaccio's stories made doubly suggestive by "piquant illustrations," she reads them greedily. This, as first act rhetoric has drilled the audience to expect, produces a potent effect on the cool bride; she becomes coy, passionate, kittenish. The dialogue is a rigid translation from the Italian; like the direction and the acting, it is excessively clumsy...