Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corner, trapped because he had not dared break the first rule of modern French politics-never antagonize England. The French people might forgive Edouard Daladier for breaking his Government's word, pledged until only a fortnight before, that France would fight before yielding Czechoslovakia, but he could not expect them to forgive him for what he had allowed to happen to France...
...market upturn was signalized by Franklin Roosevelt's decision to prime the pump once again by putting $4,000,000,000 of emergency money into circulation. Last week the President had made no such decision but speculators hoped for other forms of Government magic. They had reason to expect that business would get a modest boost from repeal of some of the more painful provisions...
Best tarpon fishing is at Boca Grande (on the West Coast of Florida), Bahia Honda (in the Florida Keys) and Aransas Pass in Texas-where one may expect to catch at least one a day during June. World's record: 242½ Ibs., taken in the Panuco River, Mexico...
...when they don't go to the movies he likes to sit at home, surrounded by massive furniture and by paintings of landscapes which Minta Martin has dashed off from time to time over the past 40 years. Two years ago Mrs. Martin stopped painting, doesn't expect to resume again. There is no more room on the walls...
...habits account for the curiously compromised appearance of so many PWA housing projects. Behind these and other errors stood a stupid officialdom which refused to recognize the enormous progress already made elsewhere. . . . From the first group [of U. S. H. A. designs] it is gratifyingly clear . . . that we may expect projects surpassing those of PWA both in efficiency and quality of design...