Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Revolution, and the distant rumble of the full Napoleonic area. Yet the novelist's personality is too weak for these high and mighty personages and events; it reveals itself as equable where it should assume the "saeva indignatio" of Swift. We have a right to expect vigor, because the historical period with which it deals has long been the "moment" of vigorous writers like Stendahl, Lamartine, Thackeray, and very recently the Russian Vinogradoff. Compare "Black Thunder" with "The Black Consul" and you will have a contemporary measure of Mr. Bontemps...
...Arthur Asdell, 38, will direct the research. All are learned, industrious biochemists. None is a doctor of medicine qualified to apply his findings to the physiology of human beings. The trio hope to validate "the theory that the characteristics of youth can be retained . . . by special diets." This they expect to prove by feeding mature rats a great variety of foods...
...recently passed several new crime laws such as the Extortion Statute, the Fugitive Law, the Stolen Property Law and the Crime Bill Series, it will put itself in a very embarrassing situation if it refuses to grant the money to finance the enforcement of these bills. It can not expect to increase the necessary duties and administration of the "G" men and at the same time withhold the funds to meet the added demands. The Florida canal was started with great excitement, but as soon as the initial fanfare had died down, funds were withdrawn, and the project temporarily abandoned...
...President Roosevelt's Baltimore speech of the thirteenth is any indication of what we may expect from a second caging of the Elephant, it is time to hamstring the Donkey instead. The nation is still fairly placid in spite of the aimless and futile experimentation it has undergone. But if that experimentation is to be revived, with no emendation and no attempt to contract its illegality, the guinea pig has every right to become a snorting wild boar...
After pleasant run last night we are anchored off Little San Salvador where we will fish and swim this afternoon. Leaving tonight and expect to arrive Nassau about 10 tomorrow morning...