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Word: expectancy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospects, Harlow's only comment was, "We don't know how the June examinations will affect our playing personnel, but if we have everybody available, we should start with a better team than we did a year ago. We realize that our major opponents are not standing still. We expect all of them to be as strong, or stronger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harlow Officially Expresses Satisfaction as Season Ends | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...Nessie," said Sir David, "must be thousands of years old and belongs to the postglacial period. . . . He is so tame I expect little trouble in bringing him home. In fact I have invited the boys of St. Bede's Roman Catholic College in Manchester to join me in the monster hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Again, Nessie | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...will hear music such as you have never heard before; now begin the piece again, young man!" In a few minutes Schumann could not resist praising the genius and foretelling a brilliant future for him. For days he repeated to his friends: "One has come from whom we may expect all kinds of wonders. His name is Johannes Brahms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/27/1937 | See Source »

...death that he afterwards felt it expedient to declare that he disapproved of churning out verse like a machine. Last week, however, he poised himself for another burst, published his Coronation Sonnet which, despite a feminine rhyme in the last line, is as good an official poem as Britons expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Seabird City | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

That women who expect to develop cancer of the breast should have their ovaries destroyed by knife, X-ray or radium was a suggestion which Dr. Wallace Edgar Herrell of the Mayo Clinic last week proposed in the American Journal of Cancer. His theory: female sex hormones affect the breast; mice deprived of their sex hormones do not develop cancer of the breast; cancer of the breast improves in some women after oöphorectomy (castration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Castration v. Cancer | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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