Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect to see entire operas staged for the Vitaphone in a few years. Whether or not it will do away with the stage presentation is another matter, but it is certain that heretofore we have had nothing that even remotely approached the vivid manner in which the 'talkies' present a story," he said...
Inclusion in the 1929 Album is optional with many men in these categories. Former members of the class now in College who expect to take their degrees later may have their choice of inclusion in the volume or in the Album of the year in which they take their degree...
...fights over Sunday baseball; everybody fights over prohibition; but Michigan is confronted by a problem vastly more penetrating, and even more odorous than these. Michigan fights over skunks. Recently biologists and furriers convinced the state legislature that skunks are valuable integral parts of a community, and as such should expect the protection due to any and all of the state citizens. As a result, it is now against the law in Michigan to molest skunks, even in the way of self protection, during the months from February to November...
...church. As for the Germans, yes, during the war I was against Germany. I was a loyal American. But since then I've held no animus. And I did vote for Hoover. But if Mr. Pulitzer were hiring a managing editor on account of his vote, I expect he wouldn't have hired...
When Captain Carey failed, none of his officers took charge. "The officers of this ship do not seem to measure up to the standard that we would expect in a British ship." And from the whole disaster Inspector Hoover stated there was one great lesson to be learned. Mechanically, nothing went wrong. Humanly, almost everything went wrong. "We must hereafter stress men more than things...