Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alone in his dirty, untended Brooklyn apartment, Emory wrote his own mother in North Carolina: "I expect to be dead within a few hours ... All my love." Then he left to meet Norma and have it out with her and her lover at Whittaker's apartment. He took along a pistol...
Denmark's Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen arrived in Washington, and was closeted with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who told him the facts of life as related to peace for the Atlantic community-and also, probably, gave him an estimate of what Denmark could expect in the way of arms after she signed. This week, Iceland's Foreign Minister Bjarni Benediktsson arrived for a similar briefing...
...subject of Brazil's undeveloped oil resources, recommended that the country: 1) modify its laws to guarantee outside investors fair treatment, 2) make an "investment treaty" with the U.S. which would eliminate the practice of double taxation on profits earned abroad by U.S. businessmen. But Brazilians should not expect-nor should they want-such foreign investments to supply any great proportion of their capital needs. Progress, said the report, "should, in the main, be financed with domestic funds. Only thus can an excessive future burden be avoided...
...that mystery of the misplaced votes at Radcliffe. What happened on the female side of the Square last week bodes well for the supply of Hokinsonian matrons in the suburbia of the future, but the people actually involved in the incident might feel that they have a right to expect more responsible behavior from a duly constituted Student Government...
However, the possibility for an informed evaluation of this University action by students did exist. The Harvard Student Council and the Graduate Student Council has every reason, as early as last fall, to expect the tuition rise. At any time during the year they could have hired a Certified Public Accountant to analyze for them the published financial records of the University. Falling such expert interpretation, students are in no position to arrive at an opinion in the matter; with it, and with the discussion of future prospects which Provost Buck gave the student councils, they could have done more...