Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bucharest, Capital of Rumania, the new Peasant-Prime Minister Juliu Maniu said: "We have abolished all censorship. We invite the Press to criticize our acts. We hope and expect that Rumanian editors will try to criticize as friends...
...Synthetics. When Carnegie Tech's President Baker asked Director Edwin Emery Slosson of Science Service to speak at this bituminous coal conference, he did not expect Dr. Slosson "to make any serious contribution to the practical and technical problems" which engaged the attention of the Congress. So Dr. Slosson, learned journalist, made a brilliant survey of synthetic chemistry, in which soft coal is the great raw material...
...Harvard-Yale Law School rivalry in many fields. One might visualize the joy of encounter on the touch-gridiron, the squash court, the five o'clock floor, besides' the promised meeting in marble halls for contest in oratory. Such is the flight of fancy. But one can hardly expect that so great a contradiction to the present tenets of the Law School will be allowed. Indeed, if one ponders the matter, there comes a sudden dawning that the debate is hardly an outside activity; that here is merely a step in training for the Great World that lies without...
Outstanding are 20 Laborites and six Independents. The tendency of the Laborites is more toward Mr. Coates than Sir Joseph. Nonetheless the Government's previous majority has been destroyed, the way for dickering lies open, and many who know Sir Joseph's mastery of that art expect to see him again Prime Minister...
...looked for in both directions. From the preparations on foot one gathers that there will not be an officer within the doors, and if a single song and dance man errs by a lack of humor this party is not what every one has reason to expect. Nothing but congratulations are due a policy which brings the finest products of metropolitan civilization into the gates of Harvard College...