Word: expect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wounds. But at no time in the Civil War did any unit of more than 1,000 men suffer higher than 20% casualties. That was when war was still in the mule and carbine stage. But changes in war technique have not changed an old military axiom: you cannot expect a unit which has lost more than one man in five to continue effective. It must be withdrawn from action, given two months' rest, completely reorganized. One reason that World War I fell into so many clinches and deadlocks was that the 20% Axiom was often ignored. The Lost...
Communist circles claim that they can not come out in the open with their activities because they expect the United States to be at war shortly, and they would then be persecuted if their identity were known. They also charge that the University discriminates against members of the Young Communist League
...great many things have already been planned for this year, and a short summary of what to expect might be helpful now before the season gets under way. Before taking up the concerts, however, we would like to mention the Charles Eliot Norton lectures which will be given on Wednesdays by Igor Strawinsky-the first one on October 18. These lectures will be in French and will give us an opportunity to hear one of the greatest figures in modern music discuss the problems of musical expression...
Used though they are to their private brand of internal politics, Army men are taught to expect at least a show of decent order at the top. The indecent disorder at the top of the War Department improved neither their morale nor their respect for civilian democracy. Two years between his upper and nether bosses brought Chief of Staff Malin Craig near to distraction and collapse before he got out last June and turned his cross over to brilliant, patient General George Catlett Marshall...
...other hand, the President would have to be assured of a receptive British attitude. This is very likely, since English leaders must be frightened as never before in their centuries of bull-headed progress. There is every possibility-almost a probability-of English defeat. At the best, Britain can expect destruction of all her industrial concentrations and the loss of the tremendous store of invested wealth which she has been amassing ever since Drake brought home the Golden Hind. At the worst she can expect extreme political and economic humiliation. Peace is wisest...