Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With only two weeks to prepare his cases for the new court term, George figured that opposing attorneys would expect him to ask for delays and would therefore neglect their own homework. He was right: when court opened, George was ready, and the others were not. In that term George handled more cases than any other Dooly County lawyer, won nearly all of them. Vienna's attorneys were delighted when, six years later, George took himself from competitive practice to run for prosecuting attorney of the Cordele judicial district. In 1912 he was appointed a district court judge, once...
Harvard Square bartenders did not expect the action to affect business very much...
...would question that a professor or teaching fellow who needs a volume as a major reference in doing research or writing a book should have it for a longer period than the casual undergraduate. It would also be unfair to expect faculty members to be subject to the same regulations as students, renewing their books every two weeks. But there should be some time limit on a book which is in demand--no matter who needs it. Those faculty members to fail to comply should be subject to regular library fines...
President Pusey made this pamphlet available to the Faculty to show "that pressure from increasing population has exerted a consistent influence on Harvard and that we must now expect this to become greatly intensified...
...Although winter unemployment has been high, there are many signs of a sharp spring upswing in business. Above all, the U.S. economy, on which Canada depends heavily, is booming. "We're not in a depression and there's no sign of one coming," Harris said emphatically. "I expect to break even very soon...