Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firmly expect you to carry [Maine]. I was. of course, disappointed in the vote but not greatly disturbed. ... I have every confidence that history will repeat itself in November in Maine and the verdict of the people will be overwhelmingly in your favor...
From London to Gandhi cabled Vithalbhai Patel, onetime President of the Indian Legislative Assembly: "You expect His Majesty's Government to modify its actions. Your expectation is based upon the assumption that the British Government has a heart which we can touch by our sufferings. It is heartless. ... I, with all Indians abroad, deplore your decision to fast unto death...
Though he seems to have been "disintoxicated" several times, Cocteau, unlike famed Addict Thomas De Quincey, admits no desire to "reform." He writes: "Do not expect me to be a traitor. Naturally opium remains unique and its well-being superior to that of health. To it I owe my perfect hours." Saying that to lecture an opium addict is like telling Tristan to kill Isolde, he comes nearest to an apology when he writes: "Living is a horizontal fall. But for that fixative, a life completely and continually conscious of its speed would become intolerable. It allows the man condemned...
...prices would re-elect President Hoover. Last week, stock values on the New York Ex change had increased $12,149,022,329 since June. Last week's break in cotton of $4 per bale was set down as politically meaningless because the G. O. P. this year did not expect to repeat its 1928 achievements in the Solid South. Business failures for the last week in August (435) were at a nine months' low. The Federal Reserve Board, issuing its most optimistic weekly report in two years, showed an increase of $120,000.000 in net demand deposits. A Treasury loan...
...class medical schools in the U. S. and Canada, most of which open for business this month, are appalled at the numbers of candidates for medical education. At the end of last school year there were 22.135 students. During the previous year there were 21.982. This year the schools expect a proportionate increase. But there is not room now for all medical aspirants. Canada's 2,448 students last year included 308 U. S. citizens. The U. S. medical overflow sent 339 U. S. students and their fees into Great Britain (Scotland was very hospitable), 188 into Austria...