Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that when George Hanson first returned from Moscow last winter, he was invited to attend an informal luncheon given in Manhattan by the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce. Asked to make a speech, he said in the course of some good-humored remarks that U. S. businessmen need not expect to do any more business with the Soviet Union than the amount that the U. S. was prepared to extend in credit. About the same time he also attended a tea given in Manhattan by Soviet Consul General Leonid Tolokonsky...
...George of Kent returned from Yugoslavia, London papers having it that the Duchess spent most of her time there "resting and sewing'' upon a layette. Until next spring they expect to rusticate at 40-room "Adsdean" in Sussex, loaned by Queen Victoria's Great-grandson Lord Louis Mountbatten who normally rents it for $250 per week...
Elegant in phrase, lyric in tone and innocent of harsh technicalities, a broad review of modern trends in his own field is what the British Association for the Advancement of Science has come to expect of its president, at its annual get-together for exchange of news and views. This year's president, William Whitehead Watts, 75, emeritus professor of Geology at London's Imperial College, did not disappoint B. A. A. S. when it convened last week in Norwich. Professor Watts talked about Earth. "The Earth." said he, "is 'a lady of a certain...
...Republican Congressmen were elected from California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and many other States. Nobody made the preposterous suggestion at that time that the New Deal was waning because a Republican Congressman was elected in California. Why this sudden change of thought? Maybe the reactionary, diehard, GOP Tories expect us to carry every State in the Union for Roosevelt in 1936, elect 435 Democratic Representatives, and 32 Democratic Senators before they finally admit defeat...
When Shidzué Ishimoto was born in Tokyo at the turn of the century, the life of a woman of the samurai class was confined to a rigid pattern, from which deviation was instantly punished. She could expect to lead a sheltered life, become accomplished in penmanship, drawing, ethics, the three forms of bowing, the elaborate and agonizing rules for entertaining at dinner, the equally elaborate rules for serving tea, the subtle and difficult art of arranging flowers in vases. She could expect her parents to arrange her marriage, to be dominated throughout it by her husband and her mother...