Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Pollster George Gallup last week came three seedlings for the spring crop of political speculation. Items: ¶Among Democrats, 66% expect their candidate, whoever he may be, to win the presidency in 1960. Only 54% of Republicans and 29% of Independents expect the next President to be a Republican...
Then Vanatta's skill began to show. He knew what to expect from his last year's players, and he sent his Memphis Tigers back on the court prepared for Bradley's all-court press. Slowing the game, picking their play patterns carefully, hitting the basket with sudden accuracy, the Tigers moved into the lead. They held on even after their star, Win Wilfong, fouled out, were in front 83-81 with less than a minute to go. Then the referees seemed to lose their whistles; players sprawled all over the court, fouling and being fouled...
When the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine was opened in 1893, a high-school graduate could get right into medical college and expect to hang out his shingle in about four years. "The Hopkins," as Baltimoreans call it, changed all that. It demanded a college degree, then four years of medical study. This basic plan, with some variations, has been adopted by virtually all U.S. medical schools. With at least a year's internship added, it has come to mean at least nine, perhaps eleven years, between high school and the practice of medicine...
Christian Wolff '56 perpetrated another bit of non-sense such as earlier concerts have led us to expect of him. This time it was Duo for Violins (1951). The two fidlers were restricted to three consecutive semitones--D, D-sharp, and E-from which a maximum of six different sounds can be extracted; and for maybe a quarter of an hour they sawed back and forth on these same notes. There are at least three legitimate reactions on the listener's part: (1) he can try to stifle his snickers or laugh outright; (2) he can lapse into an utterly...
...analgesic of Norman Vincent Peale's "positive thinking" is available in a new container. In keeping with Peale's injunction to "think big, believe big. act big," his publishers are planning big (first printing: 100,000 copies) and spending big (initial advertising budget: $45,000). They also expect to keep cash registers Pealing merrily with an offer to book dealers: 15 copies free for every 100 orders of the pastor's backlog, e.g., The Power of Positive Thinking, A Guide to Confident Living...