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Word: expectant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This feeling arises, I presume, out of the fact that there are times when I vote and express views out of harmony with supposed, or temporary, party policies. It would be insincere upon my part to apologize for the past. It would be sheer deception to lead you to expect anything different in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Isolated Grandeur | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...duty to consider the possibilities and potentialities of interconnection as a regular daily routine of the Nation. Unless it be systematically organized, we cannot expect its continuation. I realize that this matter, except in so far as it may be fostered and encouraged, does not lie in the Government. It would be unfortunate, indeed, if such an important function as the distribution of information should ever fall into the hands of the Government. It would be still more unfortunate if its control should come under the arbitrary power of any person or group of persons. It is inconceivable that such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radio Congress | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

Knute Rockne's much touted Notre Dame team comes east a favorite over West Point in their contest at the Polo Grounds. Percy Haughton's Columbia team has a hard afternoon in store with Pennsylvania, and Rutgers can hardly expect to beat Cornell, even though Williams handed the Ithacans a defeat last Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BITTER BATILES ON MANY GRIDIRONS TEST STRENGTH OF EASTERN ELEVENS | 10/18/1924 | See Source »

...secure an education outside of college. It is even possible to secure an education in college. But neither without nor within college can an education be secured without the accumulation of a goodly store of facts. Among these I should especially commend to the attention of those who expect to conduct the world's affairs for the coming generation a rather specific and intimate knowledge of the treaties of Utrecht and of Paris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 10/16/1924 | See Source »

With the success of Mrs. M. A. ("Ma") Ferguson in the Texas Democratic primary, we may expect an influx of female Ma-politicians throughout the country. Middletown, N. Y., already has a "Ma" Mullaney, Democratic candidate for County Clerk. Sauk Centre and Tunerville will follow-imitations of a great female success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Imitators | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

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