Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Horace did not look up. Annoyed, the millionaire raised his voice: "I understand you are lending money to my son ... I wish you to know that if you expect me to be responsible for it you are mistaken. I will not pay one cent...
...literature, it is entirely out of keeping with the idea of the Hall of Fame. What else could one expect from a tired jester under the influence of a bad nightmare? We choose to disregard this absolutely...
...learn the cause of imprisonment. Each day he will unravel the characters of three men to learn 1) their intelligence. 2) vocational possibilities, 3) future outlook on society. Said Warden Lewis E. Lawes of the project: "Some of the men we have here are pretty smart birds, and I expect some occasionally to put one over on the doctor. But I assure you, if you don't know this crowd, they would do that once in a while with any one. . . . Dr. Baker is an even-tempered, easygoing, commonsense sort of fellow, who has had lots of experience with...
...seems only logical and reasonable to expect that this principle once adopted in undergraduate work, must ultimately be extended into graduate work, and when it is, a long standing disability will be removed under which men have lain whose interests are literary rather than phililogical. The plan of work for the Doctorate in English at Harvard, as at present constituted, appears to rest on two fallacies. One is the assumption that a knowledge of Germanic Philology is an essential prerequisite to an understanding of English Literature, combined with the conviction that Anglo-Saxon has a direct connection with English Literature...
...disastrous and deadening effects on some men as teachers no one who has suffered under the teacher-pedant will need much convincing. to expect a man to be a research worker as well as a teacher is about as logical as to demand that a goldsmith should also dig the gold he fashions. With the profoundest respect for Linguistics and for those possessing that aptitude, one is compelled to admit that it is a highly specialized study, and many a man possessing a wide knowledge of English Literature and a sincere appreciation of its beauty has lived and died...