Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee has sent out about 850 envelopes, each envelope containing a life blank; a circular letter of instruction, a subscription card, and a return envelope. Men graduating at midyears are specially urged to return their life blanks at once. Those men who are engaged or expect to engage in winter or spring activities should not hesitate to fill out their life blanks immediately, as their future activities will be added by the Committee...
...course I do! Why else would I take the trouble to come here? But," wrinkling his nose, "you can't expect me to say anything in a stuffy box like this...
...people own 108,000,000 policies, that if every policy were paid their total value would be one-third more than all the money which the U. S. population earns in a year. As an actuarial matter the presidents deplored the 1,432,000 U.S. deaths they expect this year. Last year 1,357,000 people died...
...might well expect a theatre in the centre of a college community to be the scene of much rowdiness and laughter. The woman cornetist, the soft-voiced radio singer and the company of female artists would all be expected to receive enough ridicule to be good for them and satisfying to the audience. Such, however is not the case. The dignified atmosphere of the place stands out so clearly that to some of the more collegiate it must be painful. Perhaps the aristocratic ushers with a college education and baby blue tuxedoes so impress the student body that silence...
...science from the ordinary efforts of groups is the control of the conditions under which the experiment is conducted. For control we must have adequate funds trained observers, and accurate recording. All these terms are met in the experiments now under way; and for the first time we may expect to be in possession of results upon the given causes of which we may place reliability...