Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they're that way. Maybe the whites should feel responsible. I don't say we're not. I guess most of the trouble is that they're all so poor you folks up here couldn't understand it, and they've always been poor, and they don't ever expect to be anything but poor. If they don't like it, they can go North, where there's lots of money and everybody loves'em. A lot go. A lot come back...
Sigrid von Keyserling '60, student head of hockey at Radcliffe, refused to predict the outcome of today's game, but commented, "Win or lose, we expect some interesting collisions...
...Russian front and spent years in a Russian P.W. camp. His expressive Dead Forest (opposite) re-creates the world in terms of imagined structure, much as Klee did with fantasy. It is harsh and foreboding. After Germany's tortured half-century it would be misreading human nature to expect it to be otherwise...
...bond issues are booming. The commodity market, classic escape for capital in inflationary periods, is in the doldrums. Washington officials see a chance that the September consumer price index figures will show no rise over August because of the seasonal drop in used-car and food prices. Eventually they expect that inflation will begin to creep again. To keep it from accelerating to a gallop, both sides agree on the need for wise use of credit and fiscal controls. Says Slichter: "The greatest danger confronting the economy today is that political pressure will force abandonment of credit restraint...
...will enjoy is that of familiarity; Harvard has been watching Lefty James' football for quite a few years, and did see this team in action last Saturday, while Yovicsin's brand will be new to the Ithacans. James frankly said yesterday that he was not too sure what to expect, although he imagined that the Crimson's weight advantage up front would indicate a running attack...