Word: expect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fritz is a very affectionate man," blonde Hedwig Munz told newsmen, "and we will be married as soon as all this trouble is straightened out." And Mrs. Kuhn? She was still the same patient Hausfrau who had stood by Kuhn through all his adventures. Said she: "How can she expect to marry my husband when he still is married to me? That's silly...
...chamber above and didn't learn that the three-ring Student Council show was aprogress below until a shirtsleoved and weary messenger appeared and gave me the word. Upon finally arriving at the scene of the plotting, I got into the feel of the thing a bit but rather expect that future Council meetings will be more comprehensible and, hence, result in more informative reports...
...Lewis missing, the annual Miami conclave of the A.F.L.'s executive council was as lifeless as a fried clam. But the A.F.L. elders bestirred themselves enough to issue a chesty proclamation. With the Taft-Hartley Act in effect, they declared, it is "beyond reason and common sense" to expect industrial peace to continue. "America is now experiencing a lull before the storm. When present collective bargaining contracts expire, the most difficult period in the history of labor relations in this country threatens to ensue." Whether this was an honest warning to industry or mostly propaganda for bargaining purposes, only...
Meanwhile, he will look for evidence that the "red shift" does not indicate speed but is due to some other effect, such as light getting "tired." Hubble does not expect such evidence, but will welcome it if he finds it. Tired light, he thinks, would be a discovery quite as sensational as the exploding universe...
...rise in marriages during the war, and to general prosperity, the U.S. added 2,800,000 more consumers to its population in 1947. With an estimated population of 144 million today (v. 132 million in 1940), the U.S. has already hit a total the statisticians did not expect it to reach until the 19503. (The Bureau of the Census, whose population estimate of a year ago has proved 2,000,000 too small, gravely laid the unprecedented wartime growth to "maternity benefits, allotments to dependents . . . and occasional furloughs...