Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduate is urged to contribute to Harvard, he has a right to expect that his gift will be accepted. And acceptance was the only graceful retreat possible from the dilemma. This ungraciousness of the University has been largely overlooked, due to the extent and violence of anti-Nazi feeling. This attitude, if allowed to dominate University policy at the expense of logic and manners, is just as unbalanced and overemotional as the behavior which is criticized so sharply in the Nazis. A. M. Sherwood, 3rd '36 H. S. Whiteside...
...College (1929-32). To a London audience, over which gradually fell a great hush, the Admiral declared: "The Lusitania might have been used to transport 10,000 American troops on a single voyage to fight Germany. If women and children choose to cruise about in war areas, they must expect what they get. In sinking the Lusitania as an act of war, the Gearman Admiralty was right...
...lunch at Winthrop House where I note a merry dance is to be held Feb. 21st; but I must confess I do think the poster which doth announce the affair be in poor taste. This I did tell some ones but all they did say was: "We don't expect you to bring your Grandmother!" Alas, I back to the Tower to lick my wounds...
...each, compete for invitations. Seventy mixed teams of two went to Chicago to try out. The 24 fastest received invitations to enter. Prizes range from $1,000 for first to $250 for third. Since Roller Derby enthusiasts, other than Promoter Seltzer, cannot expect to make a living from their vocation, most are intermittently engaged in other work. When the current Chicago Derby started, the field included a butcher, a candy wrapper, a steel mill worker who holds eight roller-skating records, a commercial artist, a tattooed French sailor who had a lady's portrait scraped...
...traveling with Isadora Duncan dancers... beginning as "reader" at Warner Brothers . . . making symphonies of books and magazine stories . . . he went up the tinselled ladder until he achieved his present position . . . that of assigning work to Paramount writers, Reading scripts, and looking for writing talent... and writning nothing himself, expect notes for the writers...