Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most curious curio, one of a batch of letters sent over the years to various magazine editors: a terse note from Calvin Coolidge to Sumner Blossom, onetime editor of American Magazine. Wrote Cautious Cal: "I have not written anything on the subject to which you refer and do not expect to write anything on it. In giving you this information I am trusting that you will not make any improper...
...simply cannot expect kids of those ages to determine the sort of education they need, unless they have some guidance. If this nation is not to degenerate intellectually and to lose its strength for daily life and defense against our enemies, the taxpayers, the school boards, the Parent-Teacher Associations had better wake...
...year-old Lima News after crusty old Raymond Cyrus Hoiles and his Freedom Newspapers had turned it into a soapbox for his ultrareactionary views, the Citizen had edged out of the red after only two months. "We were warned," said Publisher Howenstine, "that a new paper couldn't expect to make a profit in less than two years...
...continues to sell at a brisk rate. "At any moment," wrote San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Ralph F. Gleason recently, "I expect to see [Coach] Abe Saperstein announce T. S. Eliot in a coast-to-coast tour with the Harlem Globe Trotters...
...Genius and the Goddess is just about what one would expect of a play by Aldous Huxley. A sharp, glib, often brilliant novelist, he can give his play a facade, but his matter is not always up to his manner. Moreover, his construction is often obvious or even awkward, and he does not build up to important moments quite plausibly...