Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale, coach Howard Hobson, who originally proposed the wider lane ten years ago, said, "I expect a faster game next year from the rule change." He also approved of the uniformity given to the game by playing "one and one" throughout the contest...
Churchill to F.D.R.: "I suppose there would be ... difficulty in Russian warships coming out of the Black Sea . . . One way would be for Turkey to declare war, which I expect she would be very willing to do. But I am not at all sure that the Russians would welcome this at the present juncture...
...calculating the course, speed and altitude of approaching enemy planes, then firing guided missiles to intercept them. A 701 has gone to work for the Weather Bureau, and will attempt to make weather forecasting an exact science. Weathermen will feed into it hundreds of reports on rainfall, temperature, humidity, expect that the brain will be able to predict accurate weather for any place in the U.S. 48 hours in advance...
With the girls from Hillhouse High School so nearby, you'd hardly expect that a mere musical comedy--even if it did have a 24-girl chorus line, and even if the girls' average age was 17 1/2--would catch the well-satisfied fancy of students from Yale University. It did, though. A group of them were waiting in the alley by the stage door, hoping that someone would open the door from the inside so that they could sneak in. Down in the dressing room area there was another cluster of Yalies--ones who had penetrated the first obstacle...
...Within a year we expect to have the new telescope," Bart J. Bok, Robert W. Wilson Professor of Applied Astronomy, said last night. "We have already broken ground and will get the final contract soon," he continued...