Word: expectantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first test, held in December, proved conclusively that people can be taught to read faster and more intelligently: and the authorities expect that Friday's test will show poor reading ability results in low grades...
Objectives. Extraordinary fact about the Garner Rebellion is that its leader does not for one minute expect to win its Economy objective; at least, not at this session of Congress. John Garner, after 36 years in Congress, well knows that the President's taunt in his last annual message was a safe one, when he ironically asked whether Congress would like to economize on WPA relief, PWA projects, pensions or payrolls. More bitterly John Garner, life-long preacher and practitioner of thrift, feels that Economy is impossible so long as "that man is in the White House...
...know that the morale of next year's team will be fine and I expect Tordy Macdonald to make an excellent captain," he concluded...
From New York University's Washington Square College comes the report of youthful optimism and confusion. Senior class members polled by the yearbook, declared (1) that they expect to be earning an average of $5000 five years from now; (2) that they will not find any job acceptable unless it pays more than $25 a week; (3) that cultural subjects were worthwhile; (4) that their favorite course is the philosophy of history and civilization...
...leader revealed that with only three dissenting votes three hundred union members had-voted to walk out next Monday, "If we can't get a closed shop, we expect as least an increase in salaries and the removal of the compulsory insurance deduction from the pay checks...