Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month for 45 years he will have contributed $1,050 to the annuity fund and his employers an equal amount. The total sum, $2,100, even with 3% interest added, cannot provide many $40-a-month pension payments. On the other hand a man of 20 cannot expect on the average to live beyond 66 so that the Government figures on breaking even...
...Jimmy and Johnny have both, I think, lost out in their home environment and, while that is disappointing so far as these two particular children are concerned, it is theoretically encouraging. You can't take a child the first year up here and then throw him back and expect his experience to affect his entire life. Environment counts all of the time...
...exceptional and the usual student will receive our unqualified approval. Finally, we hold it nonsensical to attack those institutions which have made Yale what it is, however uneducational some may claim them to be. Hence, the traditional blast at the Senior Societies will not appear. The Junior Fraternition can expect our support. By and large we approve extra-curricular activities...
...happen next? By analogy with other novae, we can make a rough prediction. The star will fade slowly away, at first flickering as it fades, but at last the star will become steadily dim. Most novae have returned at last to their original brightness, so we may expect this one to sink once more to the fourteenth magnitude from which it rose. But the fall in brightness, if we may judge from present progress, will take several years, perhaps as many...
...have here an adequate account of any loss of influence and leadership of which Protestantism is aware, and he goes on to say that he does not see how the Protestant church can expect to survive at anything like its present dimensions with so small a proportion of its ministry professionally trained...