Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realize fully how often a gesture of practical concession by the Government will time and again be seized upon by a minority element as the sign that the Government is on the run. We will have to expect some such bad manners, but we will take them in our stride because that is part of the job of being a public servant...
...complaints received since Wages & Hours went into effect last October 24, Elmer Andrews' staff last week had sifted 2,800 which deserved further investigation and possibly prosecution. But U. S. business need expect no crackdown performance akin to General Hugh Johnson's NRA siege. Gentle Elmer Andrews hardly knows how to bellow and doubts that he will ever need to know...
Dorothy Canfield lives in and writes about Vermont, a sensible State where a lady's hat, to be up to the moment, needs only to be a decent shelter for the head. One might expect Author Canfield, therefore, to be impervious to literary fashion as well. But so many tucks, ribbons and feathers have been incorporated into the novel since she last wrote one (Bonfire, 1933), that she has felt it necessary to come up to date. The result sits on her head at a rakish angle, tapers to a giddy point. The angle: fascism is dangerous. The point...
...number. One cannot help but sympathize with these desert dwellers in their fight against inundation by a flood of alien settlers, who have a diametrically opposed philosophy of life. Even if no displacement of population is intended, a minority of less than one-third of the inhabitants should not expect to exercise governmental control...
This attitude is unfortunate, and if half of the fierce Langdell Hall scholars really want a common dining hall, some ambition and initiative on their part must be shown. They--and their undergraduate colleagues--have a right to expect from the powers that be, at least an appropriate building and adequate financial aid; but on the other hand they must not forget that such aid was only extended earlier when an energetic group of students had exhausted every other possibility. It is sometimes said in the Sunday Schools that "God helps those who help themselves"; and University justice...