Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wondered a bit. He was so little-looking. Ends are supposed to be big and rangy, and Bobby wasn't. When he used to come into Williams' lectures on money and banking last year, Vag used to size him up and speculate a lot. How could this little fellow expect to turn the Cornell, Army, and Dartmouth backs in on end sweeps? How could he expect to grab passes from taller defense men? Vag still can't figure out how he does it, but he does, and it makes him feel warm inside to watch Bobby play...
...Eurich's forecast: "Barring war or a recurring depression, present college graduates can reasonably expect to earn between $2,000 and $3,000 eight years after graduation...
...speak thus, and he went on to speak of Germany in the vein of a bold British businessman who fears no competition: "Geographically Germany must occupy the predominating position in relation to the States of central and southeastern Europe. I do not see any reason why we should expect a fundamental change to take place in these regions...
Norton estimated highly the value of Harvard to the city of Cambridge. "You take Harvard out of Cambridge and you might as well close up the city, expect for the water-front," he said...
...result in negligible gains. Although he called himself a long-time partisan of Anglo-American cooperation, Baxter felt "the time is not ripe" for such a culmination of the friendly relations established back in 1901. "Japan has bitten off one of the largest mouthfuls in history," and we can expect, as a result, a good measure of "indigestion." A war in the Far East "is an impossible thing for either of us singly and unwise for us jointly." Only when a more pacific policy is shown by England and America in the Pacific will it be time for a diplomatic...