Word: expect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great majority of persons who are buying Packard cars say that they expect to drive them five years or more...
...outside activities of the college overshadow and run counter to the intellectual life. Athletics, in large measure, professional in its methods and organization, fills a larger place in the eyes of students and even the public than any one other interest. No student in the university colleges should expect to receive the recognition or appreciation given to a successful football player...
...lines as you would have the whole Verse. I swear to that. But if you do make any sense out of these, please notify and I shall be glad to send you my last copy of the "American Mercury", provided you can find something in it worth reading. I expect to keep the "Mercury...
...Carnegie's often expressed reasons for creating his Hero Fund: "I believe that it take-much more heroism to save life than to take it. ... Unfortunately most of the monuments of the world are to somebody who has killed a lot of his fellow men. . . . I do not expect to create a race of heroes by offering prizes. I know well that the heroic action is impulsive. . . . But I have all along felt that heroes and their dependents should be freed from pecuniary cares resulting from their heroism." Observers noted that no pecuniary cares have devolved upon Edda Mussolini...
...desirable, however, that such arrangements should be made several months in advance. It is too much to expect of any committee to function instantly in the fall, unless it is warned of its responsibilities during the preceding spring. The appointments should certainly be made by the retiring Council in the spring and left until the organization of the next year's body...