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Word: expectant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...build a pool connected with the present gymnasium. The Planning Board may have this contingency in mind; but certainly no inkling of what it or the Corporation are considering has leaked out. Granting that some four or five months is not sufficient for formulating definite plans, students might, yet expect to be given some explanation for the delay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHERE AND WHY NOT? | 11/7/1923 | See Source »

Whether America will take this alien creed to her bosom is a moot query. That Archipenko will arouse violent opinion on both sides is patent. A hint of what he may expect at the hands of orthodoxy was contained in a review by Lucia Fairchild Fuller, A. N. A. (painter), when Archipenko's cubistic statue of a soldier was shown in Manhattan in 1921: "The thing is worthless. Only a fundamental degeneration could have produced it, and it is an ominous sign when any sane human being finds it of interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archipenko | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

...that France consented to less stringent terms than she would otherwise have demanded. America, by refusing to ratify the League of Nations, and England, by exerting her policy of self-interest and balance of power, have both played her false, and when she cannot trust her allies, we cannot expect her to trust her enemy. With the very existence of the nation at stake, France must act firmly...

Author: By William A. Gordon., | Title: Communication | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

...probably too much to expect that Harvard's singing and cheering will ever equal that of some of its opponents particularly when the opponent in question has Dartmouth's reputation. Harvard lacks that collegiate spirit which delights in white-sweatered cheer leaders with all their paraphernalia and in song leaders gamboling along the side-lines; to the stranger Harvard is not "snappy" enough. But innate dislike for "snappiness" is no excuse for failure to have a regular song leader and for imposing the duties of this position, difficult in itself on the leader of the band. Nor does it excuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONGS AND GYRATIONS | 10/30/1923 | See Source »

...daily by Coach Fisher starting tomorrow in an attempt to bring the team forward with all possible speed. The opinion prevails that Saturday's encounter may have been just the medecine needed to put determination and earnestness in the team for the next fortnight's work, and the critics expect to see vast improvement when the Tiger is faced on November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON LINE SWEPT AWAY BY DARTMOUTH | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

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