Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's end, C. I. Organizers met trouble that they did not expect. For Sunday they had scheduled a mass meeting at small Picher, Okla. in the midst of a rich lead & zinc region to talk tough miners into deserting the independent Tri-State Metal, Mine & Smelter Workers' Union. Before the meeting could assemble a mob of 4,000 Tri-Staters marched in armed with pick handles, clouted every C. I. O. man they could find in town, wrecked the meeting hall. Looking for more C. I. O. meetings, the mob crossed the Kansas line. One section...
...other country is Scholarship with a capital S so revered by all classes as in China, but this old land is changing fast and few expect bursts of scholarly observations in high classic style from a Chinese Communist leader in 1937. Last week as spring burgeoned, the Chinese people prepared to celebrate anew their Ching Ming or "Day of Spring Wind" Festival. The Nanking Government decided to invite various Chinese bigwigs on a nationalistic junket to the tomb at Chungpu of the legendary "First Chinese Emperor, Huang Ti." It was not expected that the semi-independent Chinese Communist regime headed...
First on that trip the team overwhelmed Penn State. Then it played Maryland, breeder of all-Americans, and lost and then Navy and was shellacked. They didn't expect to beat Maryland, but the shouldn't have gone to places against the Navy. Answer lies simply in the fact that the Harvard team played a zone defence in that game for the first time, with a result comparable to what often happens in such cases...
...casual reader of the financial columns must prepare himself for an extraordinary amount of nonsense out of Washington," wrote the New York Herald Tribune's cynical Edward H. Collins. "If present conditions maintain, for example, there is every reason to expect that in the next few weeks the rate of finished and unfinished steel production will be far exceeded, proportionally, by the amount of finished and unfinished balderdash emanating from the President and such alter-egoes as Mr. Eccles and Mr. Morgenthau...
...Book. Nervous readers will find The Years not nearly such heavy going as their knowledge or hearsay of Virginia Woolf might lead them to expect. Unlike some of her other books, The Years is not experimental. It is written ''straight." Superficially, it is the telescoped chronicle of a London family-an upper middle-class family, like all Virginia Woolf's principal characters. But the actors are not the first thing seen. The curtain goes up on a scene that is pointedly empty of human beings. Time is to be the real protagonist of the story: "At length...