Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expanded reading in tutorial will provide the necessary background for the junior essay. "We do not expect students to do additional research," McCloskey commented, "since tutorial reading should be sufficient...
That suave soul John Mason Brown last spring was heard to say "at least half of Harvard's undergraduates will admit reluctantly that they write poems." Identity, whose editor James Manchester Robinson is not a Fifth Avenue preacher as you might expect but is, rather, a vigorous undergraduate about the Square, promises give light to Harvard's reluctant poets in their dark corners or wherever they...
...worst was over. Nonfarm employment jumped 339,000 from July to August. The average factory work week also advanced to 39.4 hours, up more than an hour since April. In past recessions a pickup in the factory week has led to a significant increase in employment. Administration economists expect employment to go up as soon as automakers make peace with their workers (see below) and start to roll out the '59 models. But few expect the jump in jobs to match the fast pickup in production. The recession taught U.S. business to live without...
...buyers had ordered cautiously last June (TIME, June 30), and the late summer surge cleaned out stocks. Retailers believe the pickup will grow stronger in the fourth quarter. The National Retail Merchants Association polled 225 members with total yearly sales of more than $2.5 billion, found that 52% expect second-half sales to rise an average of 4% over the year-ago level, while 80% expect profits to equal or top last year's level...
Christopher Dawson, eminent British theologian and first occupant of the new chair of Roman Catholic studies at the Divinity School, has been delayed in coming to Cambridge. However, officials expect that he will arrive by Oct. 1 to start teaching his new courses at the School...