Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispute over the brand on the hook & ladder. Though the Fire Chief was known to be vacillating, uncertain, timid and afraid of the smoke and flames, we have tried to make the best of it and get along with him until we can secure a better one which we expect to do March...
...intent to place the Free State of Prussia under the rule of a "Federal Commissioner" (TIME, June 20) agreed over the telephone to a peculiar settlement of that issue last week. The Fascists, though they have a plurality in the Prussian Diet and are therefore entitled by tradition to expect that the other parties will join in electing a Fascist Premier of Prussia, agreed last week that Socialist Dr. Otto Braun may remain Prussian Premier without opposition until the Federal election June...
...eight Harvard oarsmen who outrowed Yale at New London last year, six, five of them juniors, were in Coach Charley Whiteside's boat again this spring. But because Yale had beaten Cornell and Penn, Coach Ed Leader had good reason to expect his Yale boat to go on undefeated from New London last week to the Olympic trials at Worcester, Mass. In calm water, after a windy day in which Harvard's junior varsity and Yale's freshmen had won their races, Harvard got away first with Gerard ("Killer") Cassedy, son of a onetime Cambridge plumber, setting...
...Rome, Professor Ugo Mondello Italian geologist, predicted: "We can expect another continent to rise up out of the earth in the South Atlantic Ocean as ; sequel to the recent volcanic disturbance in South America...
...familiar plot but it has no spontaneity. It is a compendium of old stories about the War and Enoch Arden. Clive Brook and Claudette Colbert act it as though they were in a trance and if you enter the theatre in the middle of the picture you half expect them to wake up suddenly and discover that they have just been dreaming. Nothing of the sort occurs. Clive Brook is a British officer. Presently he is reported dead. Miss Colbert is his wife. She bears him a son and, thinking she is a widow, is on the point of marrying...