Word: expectance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Africa, arrived in Manhattan on an export steamer a fortnight ago. Heading west, they were cheered by U. S. Boy Scouts as supreme symbols of the motto: "Be Prepared." Not only have they earned all expenses of the trip by lecturing and writing articles for Polish newspapers, but they expect to conquer frozen Siberian steppes in their Ford...
Significance: Although there have been many fears expressed over the future of the Free State, there does not appear to be any ground whatever for them. Nobody need expect Erin to become a republic overnight. The Republicans are practically deadlocked in the Dail, for the rest of the House is overwhelmingly pro-treaty and a coalition for Mr. de Valera on the Republican issue is impossible. Thomas Johnston made that much plain last week, and his party is nearest in political complexion to the de Valera-ites...
Roman Catholics in Mexico who are resisting the enforcement under President Calles of the antireligious Mexican Constitution (TIME March 1, 1926) were sharply reminded last week by U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg that they can expect no official aid or comfort from the U. S. Mr. Kellogg cited with annoyance and positively denied rumors that pressure favorable to the Holy See has been or is being exerted by the Coolidge Administration on that of Senor Calles...
...music squeaks and the staging fumbles; but Victor Moore as an amateur elocutionist, Charles Butterworth as a terrified orator, a pair of clown esthetic dancers and the pretty chorus in a burlesque of Roxy Theatre pageants manage to boost the entertainment to the high level that theatre-goers expect of a show boasting sketches by J. P. McEvoy...
...considerable Chinese faction the activities of which are such that they tend to hasten the coming of a true revolution by the entire Chinese proletariat; 2) to withdraw support from Chinese revolutionary groups if and when they develop bourgois tendencies and desert the cause of proletarian revolt; 3) to expect that the Chinese revolution, in its true and final aspect, will be slow in developing, and cannot be hastened by immediate and violent measures...