Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Brinton is thoroughly consonant with the tendency of our age to view all men sympathetically. Modern historians cease to expect a great deal from human nature; they permit much greater play to the elements of Caesar and Croesus in mankind. Since men are what they are and not what they aspire to be, such an historical methodology is doubtless more scientific...
...aptitude test for all premedical students who expect to apply for admission to medical schools next fall will be given in more than 600 colleges throughout the United States on Friday, December 4, by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Since the test is a normal requirement for admission to all medical schools, including Harvard, and it is given only once a year, all students intending to enter a medical school in 1937 are advised to take...
...funds for his Resettlement Administration, forcing him to confine its activities chiefly to drought relief, financed by handouts from WPA. With a thoroughgoing Governmental re-organization in prospect, Administrator Tugwell was last week jockeying strenuously to get his emergency agency incorporated in the Department of Agriculture, where he could expect solid permanence, ample appropriations. But Secretary Wallace was known to be reluctant to adopt this controversial foundling, and a group of onetime AAAdministrator Chester Davis' friends was actively opposing the move...
...Spanish Republic made another plea to the democratic countries of the world to come to the aid of Spain. He remarked that although while Madrid was held by the Loyalists Great Britain and France, along with the other "neutral" nations, would give that city no aid, he expected a different situation to prevail in the event the capital fell into rebel hands. President Azana lacked imagination. Now these self-styled "neutrals" will not have to wait until the defenders of Madrid are routed. Recognition by Germany and Italy is obviously for the purpose of sending the rebels openly...
...would be pure narrowness to expect this feeling to appear in the form of accords or agreements of any specific kind. The freer President Roosevelt is from the quarrels and doctrines of other nations the greater his authority will be on the day when he sounds an alarm or attempts to call a halt...