Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such a task one world expect a hand-picked body of experienced instructors, but as far as any competent system of selection is concerned, the names of the Adviser might just as well be pulled out of a hat. The man chosen as a Vice-Presidential candidate in a smoke-filled hotel bedroom has more qualifications for his office than these men. Only one example out of many is the student who, having decided to concentrate in English, went for advice to his Adviser, an amiable young Frenchman with the best if intentions. But as for advising him in English...
...suppression of war and fascism, it will protest vehemently against this most fascistic treatment accorded to Major-General Hagood. If, on the other hand, it is a body whose sole aim is to perpetuate New Dealism, or, perhaps, to turn it into something even more socialistic, we can only expect it to refrain from criticizing its master, just as we would expect the N.S.L. and the S.L.I.D., of which it is largely composed, to refrain from criticizing Soviet Russia, and the dictatorship of Stalin...
Next on the docket will come the high hurdles where Harvard's first first of the evening should appear, barring a broken leg on Green's part. There is an outside possibility of Donovan crashing through here, but only the Dartmouth fans really expect it. Then comes the broad jump, where one jump should be enough for Milt to top the 23-foot mark by a considerable margin and win the event...
...this paper," said the vitriolic mayor, changing the subject and pointing at the headlines of the local evening paper, "I've cut every city employee's pay 25 per cent. They can't expect to get as much when we've got the highest tax rate since Newburyport was incorporated. It can't be helped with this Roosevelt as President," Gillis said, as he lapped into an unprintable tribute to the first executive...
...with all these high-sounding recommendations, "Fellow the Fleet" is topid at best. The producers had every reason to expect that a conglomeration of the above elements would find success easy and inevitable, but there is obviously lacking the spark of inspiration, indispensable to what is really good, even in the medium of celluloid. "Follow the Fleet" is the well-timed appearance of a cut-and-dried application of a tested formula...