Word: expect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sociability appeared as the main influence in making choices, with more than a third of the 222 students explaining their preferences by the number of friends they expect to find in the House. Location proved a major factor in exactly half of the decisions, with other reasons based on food, athletics, facilities, and as one Freshman explained, "bathtubs...
...read with great interest the very able article on my father, Mahatma Gandhi [TIME, Feb. 9]. It was of the high standard you have led people to expect. ... I profoundly agree with the thesis of the writer that there was something more human and greater than "mysticism" in Gandhi. But the "notably unmystical metaphor" which you attribute to him-"If we Indians could only spit in unison, we would form a puddle big enough to drown 300,000 Englishmen"-was never uttered...
...Italians and Germans, what had happened to the spirit of seven years ago. The lieutenant shrugged: "This war in Greece is a battle between the United States and Russia. It happens that it's being fought here. That is our bad luck. But you can't expect us to fight your battle singlehanded-at least not with the old spirit...
...Painter, which have been quoted as his final word ever since. "What I dream of," he wrote, "is an art that is equilibrated, pure and calm, free of disturbing subject matter ... a means of soothing the soul . . . like a comfortable armchair. . . ." That simile has led critics to expect far less of Matisse than he expected of himself...
...about as far as you could reasonably expect after four days with uniforms on," was the new head coach's evaluation. "The boys have enthusiasm and a will to learn and, after all, that's the important thing...