Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Owingses are concerned, their home suits them to a T. Says Owings: "This is a onetime house for the rest of the time we expect to be here on earth...
...they gaze into the decade of the 19605, the economists see a population growth for the U.S. that will push the number of Americans past the 200 million mark by 1970, a population so much in need of homes, clothes, autos and all the other things that Americans expect as their birthright that the U.S. will be ripe for a $700 billion economy in ten years...
...collected Papers is a publishing feat that would have delighted the man who signed himself "B. Franklin, Printer," and was as proud of his craft as of his country. The co-sponsors of the Papers, Yale University and the American Philosophical Society, aided by a grant from LIFE, expect the project to run to 40 volumes appearing over the next 15 years. For the past 5½ years, Editor Leonard W. Labaree, Farnam Professor of History at Yale, and his associate, Whitfield J. Bell Jr., have combed libraries and personal collections from Leningrad to Hawaii for any letter or document...
...Nairobi a young British colonist shot his black houseboy to death for throwing stones at his dog. Arrested, he duly went on trial before an all-white jury. In times past he could expect acquittal or, at worst, a conviction for manslaughter. But a new colonial government has promised to "put the darkness behind us" in Kenya (TIME, Nov. 23), and last week Peter Harold Richard Poole, 28, became the first white man in the colony's history to be sentenced to death for the murder of a black...
...onetime experimental affiliate of Columbia University, it was left with more teachers than it could adequately pay. Case moved in with a sure hand. His 47 teachers have seen their paychecks increase an average of 60%. A full professor who used to get $6,000 yearly can now expect...