Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unless the Soviet Union shows evidence of good faith at the four-week-old Big Four foreign ministers' talks at Geneva. Said the President: "There has not been any detectable progress that to my mind would justify the holding of a summit meeting." He added that he would expect the foreign ministers to produce an agreed statement so that "we could see where we are apart on issues, whether we could narrow these gaps, and whether we could define the areas where it would be worthwhile for us to confer ... a decent working paper...
With a fat second quarter about over, U.S. businessmen looked forward to an even more prosperous third. The National Association of Purchasing Agents, which keeps sensitive fingers on the economy's pulse through the men who buy for major U.S. businesses, reported that 42% of its members expect business to be better in the third quarter than in the second, and 58% believe that the year's second half will easily top the first half. Only 29% foresee a third-quarter decline...
...university community, a difference between men and women in religious attitudes is less easy to perceive than among the general population. Particularly at a women's college with students of the intellectual caliber of Radcliffe, one would expect as much rationality and honest skepticism about religion as at a comparable men's institution...
Each undergraduate here has probably formulated some rough notions about the influences of the college; in general, one would expect the atmosphere of the University to exert a "liberalizing" or more questioning attitude toward the legacy of opinion that the student possesses when he arrives in Cambridge. But we have tried to chart these effects on different groups among the undergraduates and to isolate the causes more accurately...
...Class of '59 is one of a series of increasingly more academically proficient Harvard classes, a trend that has become quite noticeable since the Korean War. The Class of '59 does not differ markedly from the classes immediately preceding or following it. Thus, one would not expect the post-graduation plans of the Class of '59 to differ markedly either. On the basis of a 73 per cent return in a study of the immediate plans of the Class of '59 the following break-down is reported: 15 per cent plan to get a job, 7 percent plan to travel...