Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislators of wildlife conservation's important place in the national picture of land utilization, forest preservation, water purification, erosion and flood control. This year will be devoted largely to propaganda and fundraising, climaxed by a Wildlife Restoration Week beginning Feb. 20, 1938. After that Congress can expect a high-powered Conservation Lobby to settle down in Washington beside Labor, the Farmers and the American Legion...
...growing strength of the "Crown America first" trend here in New England, officers of the club confidently expect that one of the monarch's first royal acts will be to name New England the "Duchy of Farley" and to grant earldoms to the college leaders. It was revealed that the Yale club has invited girl's colleges to form "Eleanor for Queen" clubs and preparatory schools to form "Jimmy-For-Crown-Prince" clubs...
With suppressed glee the office of the Traffic Research Bureau at 29 Holyoke street announced yesterday that a grand total of six students had answered the call for volunteers for a glare-blindness test. They didn't expect...
...Robert Browning in the offing. When Kipling's family discovered what kind of treatment he had been getting at Portsmouth (his mother visited him, went up to his room to say goodnight, and "I flung up an arm to guard off the cuff I had been trained to expect"), they immediately rescued him, took him off to a country cottage. There he met his cousin, one Stanley Baldwin. At 11 Rudyard was sent to boarding school, at Westward Ho!, a new school mainly for boys from Army families, memorialized in Stalky & Co. After graduation, instead of going...
...Crowther was interested in the projected broadcasting of scientific lectures from Harvard, but added that "one must not expect too much until the technique of broadcasting lectures has been worked out." He feels that the public is more likely to understand a well written newspaper article, which one may read over and over, than a lecture over the radio where the listener can neither see the lecturer nor have him repeat baffling phrases...