Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing, who has there been to forbid him? Even this right is at last being undermined; and, although no one troubles himself to answer the inquisitive Congressmen, there must be a little stir of uneasiness, foreboding the time when the voters themselves may ask this sort of question, and expect to be answered...
Local magistrates at Winnipeg recently warned weapon-toters to expect stiffer sentences. Last week one Herbert Weston and one Andrew Wood, both convicted of "toting," were sentenced to "two years imprisonment and to receive six lashes from a heavy whip...
William Ellery Sweet, onetime (1923-24) governor of Colorado, and his son, Channing Fullerton Sweet, purchased the 15,307-acre Jack Woods cattle ranch, upon which they expect to breed a larger number of purebred cattle than does any other ranch...
...will expect a book supporting Catholicism and monarchy to be a best seller in this country, especially not if the book does not mince words, makes no qualifying statements, and is frankly the work of almost insane prejudice. On the other hand, Leon Daudet occupies a position in French affairs that entitles him to a hearing...
...older generation and of adolescent sex-difficulties was attended to by U. S. Representatives from Yale University. Said Dr. Luther Allan Weigle, dean-elect of the Yale School of Divinity: "If the older generation is motor-mad, radio-ragged, jumping with jazz and hungry with lust, we may expect the younger generation to go further and faster on the same road." Fay Campbell, secretary of the Yale Y. M. C. A., told about sex: "If a student comes for help on the sex-question I must not be satisfied with just giving him advice, but I must show, for instance...