Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole mess may rightfully be blamed on the deplorable lack of Electoral College spirit. In another month the electors will get togethers in some hall and cast their votes just as if it didn't matter which way they went. How can they expect Landon and Knox and Roosevelt and Garner down there on the field to give everything they've got when the Electoral College boys sit back on the bleachers and say isn't it a shame we haven't had a good team since Lincoln and Hamlin...
...party vote in recent years was that for the late great Robert Marion La Follette in 1924 when that Wisconsin Senator came within an ace of polling 5,000,000 ballots. Though Unionist Lemke really cannot hope to equal that record, he does, on the basis of straw polls, expect to outstrip every other third-party man in next week's election...
...Manhattan Nick Schenck stormed that he and Brother Joe "emphatically object to the Ostrer-Maxwell agreement," growling: "We feel we have a deal there, and we expect to make an issue...
...thing what the Harlow team has now become. The new spirit was shown again in the trench warfare which marked the third period. Time after time Princeton reached Harvard's three--yard line, only to be pushed back onto less dangerous ground. From such skirmishes it was unreasonable to expect perpetual success. The defense couldn't work every time, and Harvard proved to be the pitcher that went to the well too often, as Princeton made its second touchdown...
...Alumni Placement Office yesterday sent to all Seniors who expect to enter business in June an invitation to register for placement at their earliest convenience. Although these motives were sent only to members of the Class of 1937, all students who for any reason expect to leave the College in June are urged to discuss their plans with one of the Office staff and register for placement...