Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more badly than it is now working. . . . He is the sort of man who, finding his car stalled on the road, would think not of repairing the damage or of obtaining a new car. He would pour oats into the gas tank, give the old car a kick and expect it to start running...
Vines, more assured than ever since winning the Wimbledon championship last month, played dazzling tennis for two sets. Prenn got three games in each. Tennis critics, who expect a player with a two-set lead to loaf a little but not let down entirely, were baffled by the third set. Vines dawdled about the court with a pleasant grin while Prenn won six games in a row. When Vines, still loafing, lost the first three games in the third set, it looked to the crowd as though Prenn, the most tenacious tennist in Europe, was going to do the impossible...
Record. The first session of the 72nd Congress had been full of political bluster and bustle but behind the noise was plenty of substantial accomplishment. President Hoover got all he could reasonably expect from a divided Congress on the brink of a national election. His program for bolstering the sagging body economic of the nation was enacted. A variety of measures obnoxious to him were left to die. Between them, the President and the Congress made the following record...
...Board members said, "Some time ago our First Working Partner remarked to me, 'If I should die I expect you to stand by the works for one year. Then, if you are unable to continue without me, you are free to do what you like...
...plane climbed to 13,000 ft. with M. I. T.'s special instruments for recording weather data. At 7 a. m. Dr. Lange directed the glider pilots to the best ridge for the day's soaring, told them what currents to expect. Then pilots & crews started for the ridge, dragging their craft on trailers...