Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time now I expect to hear an earth-bound mother talking to her space-bound daughter thusly: "But dear, you simply cannot do it. You just cannot marry out of your planet...
Scholarship students cannot expect to recreate a Gold Coast style of life at Harvard, but the previous estimate hardly provided a marginal standard of living. Taking into account the tuition increase, the new estimate of $2600 is also not especially realistic; a better estimate of average student expenditure would probably lie in the neighborhood of $3000 a year. It can only be hoped that the Committee will increase its allowance for next year's scholarship applicants by at least another...
Although it would be overly optimistic to expect the practice of education to duplicate the theory, it seems reasonable that the one bear a faint resemblance to the other. In respect to the grading of senior honors theses, the difference between the theory and the practice is so vast as to be almost incredible and easily intolerable...
...framework law' for Algeria is a joke-and a pretty grim one at that. To a people who complain of being under the thumb of three prefects from Paris, what do we do? We send them 15 more prefects. A lot of happiness we can expect from that...
...another 100,000 new houses, it should at least give housing a solid push along its road to recovery. From last year's disappointing record of 990,000 starts, home building jumped in January to an annual rate of 1,030,000 starts, about 3% better than expected. Although storms and snow chilled the pace in February and March, builders point to a continuing uptrend in the South and West, expect the first sign of spring to thaw out a rush of weather-stalled starts...