Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this movement exhausts the catchment basins. And even the heaviest Alaskan snowfalls we can hope to expect, are inadequate to compensate. This wave motion has a suction effect, drags a lot of ice with it, thins the glacier over its length. When the impulse has expended itself, there follows a period of very rapid shrinkage at the foot of the glacier. Black Rapids Glacier may continue to move for six months to two years. Then it will recede. Five years hence it will have dwindled five miles back up its valley...
...hard business to break into because the established can makers and their customers are usually tied together with long-term contracts, often with physical connections. Cans for Campbell soup in Camden, N. J. roll out of an adjoining Continental plant. And a neophyte can maker like Crown can hardly expect to sell its goods on the basis of "service" alone...
...over a three-year residence requirement; since 1934, at least four students have satisfied the A.B. requirements at Chicago in two years (six quarters) or less, there have been a number of cases of students receiving the degree in three years (nine quarters or less and excellent students rarely expect to be forced to spend four years (twelve quarters) working for this degree. Sincerely yours, LEWIS A. DEXTER...
...intercollegiate postal match the University pistol team will attempt to riddle Texas A and M tonight. "We expect to beat those people," Captain Lawrence B. Bixby, coach of the team, said yesterday...
...that the Act as it stands is perfect, or that it is not to be changed", the administrator was swift to proclaim. But the most vital of all of the Chairman's avowals was his far-sighted prediction for the future. "It is a part of the intelligence to expect that we shall learn how to improve social security constantly, and that through the years the system will undergo definite and steady evolution...