Word: expect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blocks down Massachusetts Avenue one of the best farces to be produced in many years is showing nightly before a packed house. Opening night at the show was not the sensation that one might expect, for at the time there was no indication that the play would have such a run. It has already put ten performances behind it and threatens to continue indefinitely...
...Jayvees organized their campaign, Boston papers continued their orgy of speculation with guesses ranging from John "Ox" Da Grossa to Bruiser Kinard, New York Yankee guard and assistant coach, but no one claimed inside information. Arthur Sampson, H.A.A. publicity director, ventured that he did not expect a final choice for at least a few weeks...
...would simply have a clause approving the four-year program in principle, and authorize a $6.8 billion appropriation for the first 15 months only. The way things looked now, the Administration would be lucky to get an authorization for as much as $5 billion. And it could not expect to get final congressional approval of ERP until mid-May, at the earliest. Hearings on the bill would start immediately, but the list of witnesses was half a mile long...
...trudged through a cold drizzle to Watch Night services at St. Paul's. Piccadilly Circus was crowded and almost as gay as ever. Britons felt in their bones that somehow 1948 would be better than 1947, but nobody promised them anything. The Manchester Guardian advised its readers to "expect a meeting with history some time this year...
...Scientist Kinsey and his assistants have gathered 12,214 case histories of U.S. men, women & children. Kinsey himself recorded 7,036 of them. In the 20 more years they expect to spend on the study,† he and his associates will add 88,000 histories, publish eight other volumes. Their first book is based on interviews with 5,300 white males. Answers were recorded in code to avoid embarrassment, and tabulation by punch cards made the work easier...