Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madam Minister Harriman, asked a newshawk, expect to negotiate a reciprocal trade treaty with Norway...
...excite enthusiasm. Procedure is to boast as loudly as possible about lists of forthcoming productions. By last week two major conventions were over, six more were scheduled for the near future. From pages of ballyhoo in magazines, newspapers, trade publications, cinemaddicts got some idea of what to expect in the way of entertainment for the next twelve months...
...improvement in the Economics Department has been greatly appreciated. Recognition of the change is significant, and other departments will do well to take notice. After three or four years of preparation for a real test of their knowledge of a field of concentration, students have every right to expect a fair try, and if the axe is to cut off their beads, they are entitled to a flawless edge...
...Every professional lobbyist, every professional politician and every representative of greed and monopoly is hoping and praying that your work will be a failure. . . . Your constituents do not expect perfection. They know that it is human to err, but they do expect and have a right to expect absolute honesty, unlimited courage and a reasonable degree of efficiency and wisdom. . . . From now on Nebraska has a right to expect a business administration...
...forbidding him to live here or there, refusing him an income from the public funds, fighting to keep Edward's family from his wedding. Now the Prime Minister wishes to add insult to intolerance by refusing to Mrs. Simpson the title the Duke of Windsor's wife would ordinarily expect. Americans will not understand this move who have been taught to believe that the virtue of the English is their sense of fairness and good humor and their reluctance to hurt a man when he is down...