Word: expect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person trained in a few practical skills is not an educated person, nor is he necessarily "life-adjusted." Only through a solid acquaintance with the humanities can we expect to retain a true perspective of life and of the world in which we live. To reject the so-called "impractical" subjects in our high schools is to deny our cultural heritage. . . . It is tantamount to admitting . . . that learning, as far as we in America are concerned, is nothing more than a quick method for discovering which button to push and when to push...
...stroking his hair, "different only in the organic nature of your disease from so many others who have bled and died. In answer to your question, Madam," she said, glancing at the Tsarina, "I never permit my foreknowledge to interfere with human folly, if only be cause I never expect human folly to learn much from history...
Businessmen were not too worried. FORTUNE'S semi-annual poll of 28,200 top executives found some 60% expecting the boom to continue at the present level or even higher in 1948. Only 37% expect a moderate downturn (last May 74% expected a slump by year's end). Some 90% expect to keep their present payrolls or boost them. Almost none expects to lower prices in the next six months...
Those who know Wenner-Gren did not expect him to remain a telephone king very long; he is well aware that such companies are easy targets for expropriation. But the deal helped him get part of his fortune out of Sweden. After he had done that, he could sell his holdings in the merged company, and use the cash to expand his less vulnerable Mexican ventures...
...average American man today can expect to live to be 68; but some doctors think he should live to 150. The lower animals do much better than man. Said Dr. Edward L. Bortz, president of the American Medical Association, last week: a dog is full-grown at two years, lives to an average twelve; a cat is full-grown at ij, lives to ten; a horse, full-grown at four, reaches 25. Reasoned Dr. Bortz: "If a man is physically mature at 25, then he should have an average normal life span of 150 years...