Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Temps asseverated that there was a middle course between the guillotine and acquittal?ten or fifteen years in prison. If France is going to allow political murders to go unpunished, it said, she must expect many more of them...
...result which the reader of these annual homilies upon business deduces is that while 1924 should be prosperous, still we must not expect a boom or borrow too heavily at the bank...
While not pretending to decide either question, it may be permitted to comment upon them. As regards prohibition, one may with some confidence expect the college vote to favor "more vigorous enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment" rather than modification or repeal. For contrary to newspaper editorials and periodic sudden squalls on the part of reformers, the majority of college students, like the majority of the nation, are unwaveringly dry. More interesting will be the revelation of how strong the minority is in college and how strong the minority of Atlantic Coast states is in the nation...
...major concepts of philosophy; and we submit that no youth left free to wander through the college catalogue is likely to compass the fundamentals in this broad field of knowledge. Indeed, it may as well be said that the thing can not be done; for what results can we expect from a system of special courses and free election which abandons to immature and undisciplined minds a labour that is almost beyond the strength of the strongest man of our time--the labour of selection and synthesis...
...Other Rose. Those who journey to the Morosco Theatre for the next month or two may expect to be submerged quietly and comfortably in a wave of innocuous benevolence. Mr. Belasco has established there a sunlit sea of pleasantness, rippled by waves of wit and wafted fitfully over the audience. Unhappily, the waters of this wave are rather flat and dead. There is no swirl of red romance; there is no salt sting of savory satire. The play is just a trifle too harmless to be regarded seriously as amusement...