Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fault of any one particular group, and can be attributed in large part to rapid demobilization, causing an unexpectedly high enrollment during the spring and summer terms. In spite of the fact that publishers are now fully awake to the unprecedented demand, local book dealers do not expect any marked improvement before next spring...
...apply for these checks before registration day should not expect their checks before August...
...Publisher Graham does not expect to change the Post much. The way to have a good editorial page, he feels, is to have men writing it who know how to write. Of his own plans, Graham grins, says, "They are only the plans which any semi-intelligent man would have for a paper...
Hence the pathetic paradox that Einstein's discoveries, the greatest triumph of reasoning mind on record, are accepted by most people on faith. Hence the fact that most people never expect to understand more about Relativity than is told by the limerick...
...cars in 1946; another million will probably buy. Another 2.6 million plan to buy a house this year; a half million will probably buy one. But they plan to pay only $5,020, a price few houses are selling at. For other consumer durable goods, 9.9 million consumers expect to spend $320 each ($3 billion in all). But they expect to spend only about 25% from liquid assets; of the rest, 40% will come from current income; 35% from borrowing...