Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obligation of Harvard faculty members to contribute towards the needs of the community, and adds: "In comparison with most other classes of citizens in this community the officers of Harvard University, having suffered no reduction of salary, are a financially favored group. The general public has a right to expect us to do our full share in such times as these. There is an obligation resting upon us is do as a body, much more this year than we did last year toward helping some of the thousands among our fellow citizens who are constantly facing privations. In making this...
...course", he said, "in my own case I was brought up with them and have translated them all my life. I have always been found of them and I shouldn't want and don't expect to see any consist ant falling off in their study. I find that this University still sends out many professors well trained in the classics, and I am confident that it will continue...
...sufficient evidence that the need which it outlines is far from ethereal. House Librarians have enjoyed a considerable degree of independence; and in general their consequent interest has resulted in efficiency. But as long as they remain practically the sole judges of their own management, one may reasonably expect occasional carelessness and abuses...
...building cruisers as fast as the naval treaty allows-three per year. In the U. S. Navy's mind, the "Black" fleet of Problem No. 14 that sweeps east this week from Hawaii to the mainland, represents no fleet but Japan's. U. S. sea-dogs frankly expect to see a real Japanese fleet sail the same course, some day, trying to strike the same blow on the Pacific coast. All plans for defense are predicated upon that possibility-including the presence of the Scouting Force west of the Panama Canal. Japan, rattling her sword in Manchuria...
Most attractive ingredient in Forty-Second Street is just what you might not expect-Ruby Keeler (Mrs. Al Jolson), who failed to make a Broadway success in her own right because her voice was too small and who was persuaded to make her cinema début in this picture because she has pretty legs and can tap dance. Ruby Keeler's utter inability to act is far more appropriate to her rôle than any feigned incompetence could possibly be. It gives Forty-Second Street a charm which the efforts of the rest of the cast-George...