Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mine Workers, whose chief occupation in his State legislature was to get taxes imposed on utilities and chain stores, had no reason to doubt that he would be seated. A Democratic majority of 41 in the Senate assured him of that. His only miscalculation was that he did not expect the Senate to honor him with two days of graduation oratory...
...White House he called Speaker Byrns, House Rules Chairman O'Connor, acting Floor Leader Taylor, Ways & Means Chairman Doughton, laid down the political law to them. They told him what he could not expect the House to do. He told them, with considerable desk pounding, what the House was going to do. The Democratic Congress, he assured them knowingly, would not say anything could not be done, if the Democratic President said it had to be done...
...races. At Princeton in 1933 Lovelock lowered the world record to 4 min., 7.6 sec. Thereupon Cunningham at Princeton last year dropped it to 4 min., 6.7 sec. Princeton's enthusiastic Coach Matt Geis looked to Lovelock to do something even more extraordinary last week. "Bonthron and I expect he will be able to do 4:05," said...
...with all the high hope that the ticker tape revealed, there were plenty of fears that the current business recession would deepen. Said Economic Statistics, Inc. last week: "We expect quite a sharp reaction in both industrial and manufacturing activity during the month...
...dispatches quoted China's Ho as saying privately to Japan's North China Chief of Staff Col. Takashi Sakai: "I now fully understand what the Japanese want. I hope they realize my sincerity in seeking peaceful solution. I am convinced they will be rewarded. I do not expect any outward incidents...