Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commenting on the winter exercise classes Mr. Fradd said, yesterday: "We naturally do not expect to change a man's posture from D to A in six weeks of supervised exercise, but we do maintain that we can reeducate him in the fundamentals of balance. It is interesting to note in connection with these classes, that 40 per cent of the men taking them ask for continuance of the six weeks of compulsory attendance...
...didn't know what the term signified! No doubt the rallies have been put aside as expressions of kiddish emotionalism unworthy of college men. But without some kind of real, honest-to-God enthusiasm directly instilled into the men on the team, we have no right to expect them to defeat teams whose members feel solid support behind them...
...country seemed ready and waiting for him to lead. Never before were the possibilities better for a Democratic Administration to get things done. The result seemed to depend upon the brand of statesmanship to be furnished by the new President. From him and his party what could the country expect...
Less skeptical than Europeans, delighted Latin Americans seemed to expect prompt and sweeping tariff abatements as the first card in the new deal. Only President in the world actually to speak out on the U. S. election was Chile's Acting President Abraham Oyanedel. "The program of the Democrats," he cried, "is in exact alignment with Chilean aspirations! . . . A mutual reduction of tariff barriers is of transcendental importance...
...scholastic atmosphere of the Houses, but it is the most important of the three. Better grades at Harvard mean, not that standards have fallen, but that the student is becoming more mature and more interested in his work. If the present conditions continue there is good reason to expect that colleges will become less and less fields to be sown with wild oats, and more the institutions of higher education which the proper attitude of students should permit them...