Word: expectantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instance, students of China who have not studied modern history often repeat the old saw that China has been conquered several times before and always absorbed her conquerors, and so we can expect the same thing to happen again. This is dubious logic...
...this same vitality of the old Confucian way of life which has delayed China's modernization. In the last decade the tempo of modernization has markedly increased, but instead of evaporating, the old culture seems to be forming the basis for a rapidly growing modern nationalism,--as one might expect. Modern China is becoming more and more conscious of its own heritage...
...into a new building, but for the Times things move slowly. Often behind other papers in reporting important news, sometimes withholding actual scoops until a Times man can make a personal check, the conservative standard-bearing Times gets no complaints for tardiness from its 196,000 respectable readers who expect only reliability, authority and dignified entertainment...
...necessarily look to any specialized group. As it concerns everybody, so everybody may try his hand at solving it. The aforementioned man of Utah, who wants to put nozzles in streams that the winter torrents may diffuse and freeze, is not the only man from whom the nation may expect to hear during the next months...
Harvard can well take the lead here. This winter the University must expect one of its members, students, officers, Faculty men, or service employees, or a combination thereof, to find out how snow may be eliminated in the shortest time after it has fallen...