Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Basically, McCurdy's and the team's effort was to support its three of four consistent runners with the depth necessary to win meets. Benjamin and Thompson were two seniors of whom McCurdy could expect a reliable performance, and the season more than established their worth...
Several Council members expressed the view that the Council has done little to inspire support from the students. D. Dwight Dogherty '59 commented that "the Council has goofed at least five times this Fall. We can't expect support from students when we goof...
...self-proclaimed "failure." During the 13-year-period (1877-90) covered by this book. Adams produced two biographies, two novels, and a 4,000-page history of the administrations of Jefferson and Madison. This could be called failure only in the special sense that an Adams was born to expect miracles from any Adams...
...miracle of the middle years that even Adams did not expect, according to Samuels, was his remarkably happy marriage at 34 to 28-year-old Marian ("Clover") Hooper, a witty, independent-minded fellow Brahmin. Characteristically, Adams says not a word of wife or marriage in the Education, possibly because the twelve-year idyll was to end in Marian's suicide after her father's death. But until then Henry Adams basked in the reflected glow of the brightest and most exclusive salon keeper of the Washington of the late...
...first step, said Harris, is to double tuitions in all colleges, and spread the total cost over a 20 to 60 year period. "If the colleges expect to get a fair share of the consumer dollar, they must exploit the credit mechanism," he stated last night...