Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What do we think of England?" she said in answer to a correspondent's question. "What would any country think of another which held it in subjugation? It is vain to expect justice from a race so blind and drunk with the arrogance of power,* the bitter prejudice of race and creed and color, drunk moreover with abysmal ignorance...
...preliminary value of 500 million years, which is probably a minimum value because of possible loss of helium in space and in our museums for over 60 years. The Pultusk meteorite was certainly of interstellar origin, and judging from preliminary results of the Arizona meteor expedition, we may expect that at least several of the iron meteorites investigated by Paneth also do not belong to the solar system...
Significance? Day before the election Adolf Hitler said, "I will get more than 12,000,000 votes," thus tacitly admitting that he did not expect to be elected President on the first ballot...
...committee should be "discharged" from further consideration of the matter. The roll call vote would thus be on the question of discharging the Committee and not on the Constitutional amendment itself. But as the Wets saw it, such a vote would approximate sentiment on Prohibition. The Wets had no expectation of mustering the majority needed to bring the amendment to the floor, much less the two-thirds required to pass it. What they did expect was to compel all Congress-men-Wets, Drys and Weaslers-to stand up and be counted* for the first time since 1917 on an issue...
...bright, Candidate Smith, say his friends, hopes to gc to Chicago with enough pledged support to block Governor Roosevelt and dictate the choice of party leader. ¶ Melvin Alvah Traylor, speaking before the Kentucky Legislature last week, declared: "I have not been, am not now, and do not expect to become a candidate for public office. ... I am in love with my chosen work [the presidency of Chicago's First National Bank] and have no desire to desert it for the spotlight of the political arena.'' From the Columbia (Ky.) Traylor-for-President Club, however, fat envelopes...