Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reader of LIFE, I recognize it as being ostensibly devoted to the pictorial arts, and am willing to permit it an artist's freedom in the use of words. But as a reader of TIME, I have learned to expect notably correct writing. Consequently when that peculiar word photogenic showed itself in LIFE some time ago, I was inclined to be lenient. Now that it has appeared in TIME (Oct. 25, p. 25), I am inclined to protest...
...that it has the toughest job of the year on its hands Saturday in Cambridge. Still the Eli gridmen are in good shape, mentally and physically. The seven games so far have proven that they have the stuff. With a week's intensive practice supplementing al this experience, they expect...
With the prospects for the coming season about the same as they were at this time a year ago, mat enthusiasts expect no new innovations in wrestling technique but hall with delight the "Harkness Special" which appeared for the first time yesterday. According to Johnson, number one match with M.I.T. will be a "walkaway" with chances for victories over Pennsylvania and Yale still decidedly in the balance...
Students should register only when they are receiving NYA student aid or expect to quit school as soon as they find full-time employment...
...airplane are necessary, with tracks along which platforms are rolled to distribute the load evenly in the fuselage. To the job P. A.G. assigned one plane, an old, all-metal, tri-motor Ford (the San Fernando), calculated it would take 500 trips carrying a ton at a time, and expect to have the last load laid down in Tipuani Valley within 100 days. The saving in time over burros and porters is estimated at seven years, eight months; each trip taking 28 minutes against the mule's ten days...