Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might expect, Harvard means a variety of things to people, "an island of light" to President Pusey where he first came into contact with the incredible, if slightly pretentious erudition of ... Harvard undergraduates. To Robert Cutler it is the moment when Professor Copeland looked at the coral pig on his watch chain and said, "Is that the emblem of your sublime little club...
...facilities for 6,000,000 passengers annually (current volume: 3,000,000). The city has also built a 500,000-gal. underground fuel-storage system, and concrete taxi aprons and loading ramps thick enough for heavier jetliners than any yet designed. New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco also expect to be ready with long runways and big terminals. Though San Francisco's new $14 million terminal is only three years old, the city's voters have authorized another $25 million outlay over the next ten years for runway and terminal expansion to handle the 10 million passengers...
...says an angry Pittsburgh appliance dealer. "Everyone wants a bargain, but when the cut-rate, $100 TV set goes fizzle and the repairman's bill comes to $25, the customer refuses to pay." Manufacturers are partly to blame; while the auto owner has learned by long experience to expect occasional repairs, few appliancemakers emphasize the question of service. Even so, say repairmen, the public usually brings much of the trouble on itself. Some 30% of all service calls are "nuisance" calls, such as explaining the operation of appliances to people who never bother to read the instructions, and argue...
Most managers said that although practices have been hindered by the flu, they did not expect many more forfeitures...
...suggestion of the Radcliffe Administration, the committee is considering whether a Harvard organization which admits Radcliffe members must promise to keep at least one girl on its policy-making board. Such a requirement is both unnecessary and unfair to the organizations involved. Radcliffe girls should be treated, and will expect to be treated no differently from other members. A girl should have the same opportunities as her male counterparts to run for executive office. But there is no more reason to guarantee female representation on a policy board than to insist that such boards always include a Catholic, a Southerner...