Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First to leave the session after this uncompromising document was thrown at A.F. of L. was tough Joseph Curran, president of C.I.O.'s new National Maritime Union. Asked why the meeting had broken up, he snapped: "Hell, you can't expect men to come out of a dead faint and go right on negotiating." George Harrison, added the hardboiled seaman, was "still quivering...
...committee (the Student Council Committee) were appointed by a man who was a member of the very organization that raised the money for the ambulance . . . At any rate, he nominated a committee to investigate his own activities. Under such circumstances the report is all that one can expect...
...chance to admit his affiliations with Dr. Cannon. He has not done so, perhaps believing that we were ignorant and would remain ever so, of his activities. At any rate, he nominated a committee to investigate his own activities. Under such circumstances, the report is all that one can expect...
...years ago Cambridge announced that it would build an atom-smasher of the Lawrence type. The Cavendish workers now expect their machine to be running in about a month. But Lord Rutherford will never see it start. He died last week, aged 66, after failing to rally from an abdominal operation. His passing evoked expressions of grief and tribute from all over the scientific world. Said 80-year-old Sir J. J. Thomson, famed discoverer of the electron, who once was Rutherford's teacher: ''His work was so great that it cannot be compassed...
...sportswriter named him "Slingin' Sam" because he threw a football as easily and as accurately as a baseballer throws a baseball. Slingin' Sam's nickname has this year been a double asset. Not only does it fit snugly into headlines, but sports-reading opponents, who always expect a pass whenever Sam Baugh has the ball, are disconcerted to find that Sam Baugh is as capable a runner and kicker as he is a passer. In the six games so far this season 53 of Sam Baugh's 109 passes have been completed-for a gain...