Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the freshman basketball squad meets Newman Prep at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Indoor Athletic Building it will have had only two team practices behind it since exam period began. Coach Lloyd Harper doesn't expect any noticeable depreciation in the quality of his boys play, however, because he held informal practice sessions during the two and a half week layoff to keep them reasonably up to snuff...
...interesting to see in print the well-known fact that converts to Catholicism do not always find what they expect...
...Jamaicans had long since learned to expect such antics from their gaunt, cyclonic Communications Minister. Once a Manhattan waiter, he returned to his native island to win fortune as a moneylender and fame as the rabble-rousing leader of dock-wallopers and cane-choppers...
...life in England) is the first biographer to get free access to Sir Arthur's huge stock of letters and manuscripts. Since Carr himself is a talented contriver of whodunits (as "Carter Dickson" he is also the creator of Detective Sir Henry Merrivale), mystery fans are likely to expect his Life to be first rate. They may be a little disappointed. The Life is highly valuable as the most definitive job to date, but some of its fine feast of facts has been spoiled by the way they have been dished...
...pregnancy and two classes in how to relax by exercise. Another lecture on labor and delivery and two more exercise classes were given the last month. The last class ended with a tour of the obstetrical di vision, labor and delivery rooms, so the women would know what to expect. Doctors and nurses avoided the words "labor pains," and spoke of "contractions." During delivery, the mother may, if she likes, watch the process in a mirror; she is always told just what is going on, just what will happen next, and is assured that it is all normal. One patient...