Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Williams game on Tuesday, visiting goalie Dick Marr commented that Harvard and Middlebury had the worst knots of hecklers he had ever seen. "But you expect it at Middlebury," he added. "They haven't anything else to do up there...
Leighton, under whose supervision Harry had worked since the Graduate Center was built, refuted Mrs. Brown's charges. "I shook hands with him and wished him good luck. What more can you do? Does she expect me to give him a fifty dollar bill?" he asked...
...colleges have made it almost a habit to berate the U.S. secondary school for the quality of student it sends them. This week, in his annual report, Dean William Warren of the Columbia University School of Law turned the tables on the colleges. "We are entitled," he wrote, "to expect that the college graduate be able to read argumentative or expository prose swiftly, comprehendingly. and retentively; that he be able to express himself in speech and writing grammatically, literately, and precisely; that he has learned the basic lesson of using a dictionary. But we have found that...
...increase in consumer installment credit dropped to $291 million in October. It rose again seasonally because of heavy Christmas buying to $345 million in November and $438 million in December. Since it takes several months for indirect controls to take firm hold on the economy, FRB economists now expect consumer installment credit to start dropping, figure the net increase in January was below $300 million...
Transamerica, which already owns banks in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, pushed into Idaho and Utah in a race against time. Most bankers expect sales of independent banks to out-of-state holding companies to be banned under legislation now pending in Congress. However, said Frank N. Belgrano Jr., Transamerica's 60-year-old president and chairman, Transamerica's recent purchases had been suggested by local banks that wanted to sell. This week Transamerica's traders moved on to Ogden, Utah, Marriner Eccles' home base, to discuss a deal with the Bank...