Search Details

Word: expectation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...stead they erected a permanent organization, whose full official title is "Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)." Man of Power. John Llewellyn Lewis does not expect to be seen clearly in his time, but he does expect to be measured in history. Seemingly undismayed by C.I.O.'s poor showing in last fortnight's elections, Mr. Lewis last week measured himself as a man of power. Said he: "My strength is only the strength of the multitude when the multitude gives me a grant of authority to represent it, but when they send their grant of authority, then my strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: C.I.O. (CIO) | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Distilling vitamins requires a very high vacuum. Scientists do not expect to make a perfect vacuum, any more than they expect to reach the cold of absolute zero, but they try to get as close to perfection as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vacuum Ecstasy | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...orchestrated last year from a set of three written in 1919. This curiously un-vital music consists of a slight Pastoral and a more amusing Bacchanal, composed in a rather wayward French style, uncommonly exotic for an Englishman. The treatment of the orchestra is less brilliant than one might expect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

Tomorrow would be Thursday, and Vag knew exactly what Society would expect of him. It would expect him to go to Church and register gratitude all over his face and then go out somewhere and stuff said face just as full of turkey and cranberry sauce as he could. That was Thanksgiving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/23/1938 | See Source »

...expect to see the building started during his lifetime, but his investments were so sound that a year ago the fund went over $500,000 and ground for the building was broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cubberley's Gift | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Previous | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | Next