Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still a poor coal man. He led a procession back to the bistro, paid for coffee and another round of drinks. Exulted he: "We shall sell the coal business. I never liked it anyway. My wife and I will make a trip, and when we come back I expect to start a new business that I have been thinking about a long time...
Accosted by newshawks in Baltimore, where he had gone to have his eyes examined by famed Ophthalmologist William Holland Wilmer, J. Pierpont Morgan explained: "You see, if I expect to get any ducks my glasses must be right." Next day, from a New York Rod & Gun Club blind on Spesuti Island, he shot four black ducks and eight canvasbacks...
With workmanly pride the Nazi Secret Police announced last week that they had just arrested 2,300 Communist suspects throughout Germany, confiscated 2,500 tons of "illegal literature," expect to prosecute 1,000 of their captives for high treason...
Lynching is murder in its most brutal form. You, who are under oath to uphold the law, have given this worst of crimes your complete sanction. You cannot expect such men as Holmes and Thurmond to obey the law if the governor of the state of California does...
...Assistant Professor of Chemistry George B. Kistiakowsky, these men, veiled in secrecy and unwilling to divulge their plans, have completed a complicated mass of apparatus, that it is hoped will measure in a more direct and accurate manner the amount of heat evolved in a chemical change, and expect to be several years in perfecting the apparatus. The Rockefeller Institute has put up an unknown amount of money to build the apparatus and to use it for research...