Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact. Designed to beget a "proper placement in courses and a friendly interest and readiness on the part of the Advisor to talk over the various decisions", its practice has brought much disappointment to first-year men. Coming from distant states and new to university life they rightly expect some mature, personal guidance. That they do not get this assistance is indicated by the cynical disrespect which most upperclassmen hold for the system, a feeling epitomized in the classic farewell of advisor to advice--"Drop in again any time. Next April, for instance...
...Dodds' method of broadcasting was as unique as the proclamation itself. He enclosed the notice in an envelope with the football tickets. In such a place one might expect the warning that, "Miss Fontanne is on the stage at the rise of the curtain and the audience is earnestly requested to be seated in time," but not a request that "all persons refrain from the use of alcoholic liquors while attending athletic contests." Still it was an easy way in which to breathe the word around, and when the notices have been thrown away with the envelopes they will...
...about to take off alone. Bundling into flying togs, she dashed at dawn to Floyd Bennett Field where Pilot Bjorkvall at first would not speak to her. Eventually she cornered him in a hangar from which she presently emerged in tears. Said she. "I'm grounded. ... I expect he wishes to have all the publicity. I'm mad, but I'm a lady and cannot swear...
...Philippine Government, they intimated, lacks money to pay institutional lepers immediately. On the other hand, the Government is building regional leprosaria where lepers may live near their kin. As soon as doctors pronounce a leper cured he will be freed. But only one out of 20 lepers may expect to be cured. Therefore, the other 19 had better make the best of confinement. The Government gives them vegetable gardens to tend, occupations to perform, diversions. Children do not inherit leprosy. But they may catch it by associating with their parents. Therefore, scientists have decided that lepers had better not marry...
Asked about his rivals, 43-year-old Nuvolari had given out a statement: "I have great respect for several of them but I expect to win." A driver with such courage that he once won a race with his leg in a plaster cast, such endurance that he drove in another the day after a crack-up which doctors had said would keep him in bed for half a year, Nuvolari wears a little silver turtle on a string around his neck to remind him of the fable about the tortoise and the hare. Last week he remembered both...