Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never seen a more evenly matched set of contestants in any tourney," Coach Shevlin enthusiastically stated yesterday. "There will be a great opportunity for new champions, as there are but one or two real outstanding boxers. I expect some fast bouts, especially in the heavyweight and 147-pound classes. There are more heavyweight entries than ever before, and the tournament should arouse as much interest in University circles as the intercollegiate sports...
...President Pringle is right. When undergraduate affairs are such that the local officers of the law must intervene to prevent the college from becoming a mere institution of corruption, action is truly imperative. This last publication of the Brockton Blimp is too much. It is fair to expect occasional dull spaces in the pages of any humorous paper. But when those spaces are filled with obscenity in lieu of the lacking wit it is high time to call a halt. For years the tradition of Brockton periodicals has been--"Humor and news, clean, clear, and clever." And now the Blimp...
...well as the resulting problem of super-competition in America is mass production. By mass production of sufficient magnitude we can lower prices and raise wages so that the working people will be able to have an ample share of the comforts of life. It may seem visionary to expect that wages will be raised with the lowering of prices, but higher wages become an inevitable part of even a selfish scheme of mass production. For the producers must have consumers for their products and they can best be assured of them by raising the wages of their employees...
Later Briand returned too, after an exhausting 72 hours at Geneva. He found Paris bubbling with desire that he succeed himself, reform the cabinet. He said he would refuse. "They have broken the dish on my head," he said, "and now expect me to pick up the pieces." He repeated that he would refuse. He conferred with President Doumergue and still said he would refuse. But the pressure was increasing. With a cabinet drawn slightly more from the Left than last time, he could save the day. He still refused, but his friends gave him little rest?little rest...
Verily, noted the country, Milwaukee people look after their health. In 1924 only 72 of them committed suicide. Men can expect to live for 58.77 years, women for 60.70 years. The 1923 death rate was 10.8 per 1,000 of population...