Word: expectantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME and Photographer Peter Stackpole an orchid for No. 1 shot of the year [TIME, April 8]. Such journalistic enterprise encourages TIME-readers to expect the impossible-a picture of Citizen Herbert Hoover snoozing during one of his own speeches...
...breed, and some Englishmen seem quite content for John Bull, who takes his name and characteristics from it, to be regarded as the national archetype. The other breeds, most of which are represented in this volume, also connote various spiritual attributes to the mind of men. Thus we expect hauteur in the King Charles spaniel, conrage in Scottish terrier, selfishness in the Pekingese, and gentleness in the St. Bornard, Man does not yet know the dog however, for two of his most outworn similes directly contradict each other: "as devoted as a dog" and "as treacherous as a dog." Knowledge...
...statement was made that we were now ready to supply paper prints, whereas in the interview we stated that we expect to be able to supply paper prints in the near future, which you will realize is quite different when viewed 'from the reader's standpoint...
Castles & Teeth. IlDuce. who will open the Stresa Conference in the tall-terraced, fairylike palace on Lago Maggiore where Napoleon dallied for some months with Josephine, sternly warned his people to expect little from the Great Powers' conference. "You must," the Dictator told Italians, "build no castles of illusion...
...could not live up to my obligations as minister, I would hand in my credentials and stop preaching. I would not walk up & down the streets a self-confessed liar by puffing a cigar. . . . Many ministers complain they are not getting results in their works. How can you expect God to bless a liar? . . . When any member of this conference violates his obligation not to use tobacco, you have a right to bring charges against...