Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Referring to the outcome of the gradual industrial development of India, Mukerji held the view that in the end, neither India nor the world at large could gain. "In 50 years," said he, "foreign countries can not expect to compete with the mass production of such a large population, and as for the natives themselves, India is a tropical country; why should her people work indoors when they are healthier and happier working outdoors...
...Didn't expect me back on time, did you? Here I am, though! You have a rendezvous with...
...mere compilation and redaction. The result has been a flood of matter that excells the pamphlets of former centuries only in that it is better bound and more expensive. Uneasy under the searchlight of critics, the public has been self-consciously seeking knowledge, but it is impossible to expect it to consume all the indigestible efforts that now bury bookshop counters. The burden of a profitable business, they must go down in red ink on the ledgers of men who abandon discrimination because they fear to reject a work that might parallel the phenomenum by Will Durant. And the better...
...College faculty has erred in the initial presentation of this Period--and the possibility seems likely--it has erred on what is probably the right side. Rather than expect too little it has, in many cases, expected too much. Reading assignments have been large; on the whole, if one is to believe current reports, they have been too large. No time has been left for that individual grazing in the fields of learning which was one of the hoped for consequences of the plan. The books read have been required; the student in this experiment has been as dependent...
...nineteenth century Europe had begun to expect a more reasonable, not to say more Christian attitude on the part of the papacy toward the long established churches which had thrown off papal control and by their history of service and sacrifice had demonstrated that...