Word: expect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another thought they would like to enter politics, or 'public service' as they generally preferred to call it. Too often they have decided that they wanted to begin by being, let us say, a congressman, and have retired in high dudgeon when they found that they could not expect more than a membership on the county committee, and even that they would have to fight for. The man who wishes to be valuable in politics should first become recognized as district leader and county committeeman. Office holding will come after this...
...administration of the liquor laws should be taken out of the hands of Secretary Mellon, but we can't possibly expect that to be done, unless we have a Democratic congress...
...tutorial system of education has been highly perfected in the English universities largely because of the social and academic compactness of the colleges, and there is strong reason to expect that division of Harvard undergraduates into college groups would make it easier to administer the tutorial system and increase its values to the students...
...opportunity for improving the service which the School can render to other institutions in making this material available is so important that the Faculty has undertaken to devote considerable effort in the next few years to this problem. We expect to write headnotes for cases, to digest cases already in the files, and to index, collate edit, and improve this mass of material for the more ready use of teachers in other colleges...
...what price might a philatelist reasonably expect to sell letters mailed across the North Pole? (See SCIENCE...