Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hudson," undergraduate enrollment totals only 2,000--up from a pre-war norm of 1,750. But because of the confusion between small Columbia College and huge Columbia University, and because of the college's pre-eminent position in the world's largest city, people have come to expect big things of the institution which once turned out such graduates as Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Robert Livingston, and Gouverneur Morris...
Chester A. Higley, counsel for Nicholas Mavrides, said he did not expect to make an appeal...
Before he can expect to trot out onto the Stadium greensward Saturday, though, he must convince three men by the names of Stone, Hickey, and Glynn that this pre-season rating is not merely idle talk. Don Stone played first-string center last fall when Chuck Glynn hurt his hand. He was particularly effective on defense. A Senior, he got his football groundwork at Roxbury Memorial High...
...wants a majority of the 58 United Nations to record themselves in favor of the U.S. plan. Departing for Paris with the high fervor of Crusaders, the State Department atomic team did not expect Russia, to abate its intransigence by one jot or tittle, simply counted on the moral value of a majority vote against Russia in the Assembly...
Rachel and the Stranger (RKO Radio) has been rushed into the theaters ahead of schedule because RKO hoped to cash in on Robert Mitchum's sudden notoriety. No one had a right to expect the movie would be much good, but it is. The first Mitchum film out since his arrest for smoking marijuana (TIME, Sept. 13), it turns out to be a pretty entertaining comedy-drama...