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Word: expectancy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that she doesn't expect to. Why else have Boston connections? and this is no chicken from Dayton, Ohio. She's a New Yorker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Freshman Finds Cambridge What She Expected; Amazed by Untidy Harvard Students | 10/1/1936 | See Source »

...past experience carrys any weight, scandal at Harvard has been more restricted than a university of this size has any right to expect. The decency of most of the young ladies attending Harvard functions, along with a happy regard for the "time-and-place-for-that-sort-of-thing" doctrine, has kept the social life here in better taste than that of any other university of comparable size and diversity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VIRTUE ON THE HALF SHELL | 9/29/1936 | See Source »

...been provoked by about a dozen complaints from the Midwest against Republican tax propaganda, had never heard of anyone being prosecuted under the law. He did not know whether it applied to filling stations and theatres, which regularly list taxes separately in advertising their prices. Nor did he really expect to do anything about the Republicans unless they provoked him to it. "The Department of Justice," he declared, "does not want to be drawn into any controversy that it can avoid that has any partisan significance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes & Truth (Cont'd) | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...James Ewing of Manhattan, undisputedly the world's No. 1 cancer authority, struck squarely at the entire cancer problem by saying: "The public must not expect cancer research to disclose the secret of the cause of cancer, nor to provide a universal remedy for advanced cancer. There is no one cause of cancer. There are many causes, often preventable, and the public should acquaint themselves with the nature of these causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Symposium | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...cope with this, where there are low readings, the operation is postponed until by rest and the use of digitalis the patient's vasotone is raised beyond the danger point. When the readings are low, but immediate surgery is imperative the surgeon must expect trouble, employ speed, spare trauma and select the less severe operative procedure, such as draining an organ rather than removing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physical Therapists | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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