Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flanked by burly Hawaiian longshoremen and buried up to his pencil-sharp nose in flowery leis, Harry Bridges stood smiling on a ramp at Honolulu Airport one morning last week. "Well, Harry," said a dockworker, "we'll expect you back in 1951. We'll really give 'em hell then...
ATOMIC AGE "I Expect to Sleep" From Rome, where he was on a lecture tour, one of the world's top nuclear physicists launched a prediction into the suspenseful calm with which the U.S. responded to the news of Russia's atomic explosion. Professor Enrico Fermi made the obvious but often forgotten point that Russia's Alamogordo does not, by any means, give her automatic parity with the U.S. Quantity, quality and means of delivery are crucially important. If the U.S. keeps ahead in these respects. Fermi could see no war for 20 years...
...citizen. He was a top man on the team that put the first chain-reacting pile to work in Chicago in 1942. Last week he prescribed energy and vigilance as antidotes for panic: "American supremacy is predictable up to 20 years if we work hard. As for me, I expect to sleep as well as my insomnia permits. I'm a fatalist by nature, anyway...
Undoubtedly the Cadets expect to win this one, too, so one of Harvard's greatest hopes is that Army will be overconfident. Unfortunately, overconfidence is not so good a runner as Jim Cain, nor so good a passer as Arnold Galiffa...
Chao-Chu Chi '52 and Thomas L. Roberts '50 will take their charge of job discrimination at a lunch room to the Mass. State Fair Employment Practice Commission at 2:15 this afternoon. They expect to be accompanied by several members of the Harvard Young Progressives...