Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest in the city. The Art Institute's housewarming show-some $3,000,000 worth of masterworks by El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Picasso-drew a record turnout of 53,031 visitors, more than the museum in its old headquarters could normally expect in a whole year...
...feel bad about Miss Jomes. She took her unhappiness out in hard work and was promoted to assistant manager. We expect a thankyou note from...
...Sebo estimates that he has thirteen players who are "not up to par," including Frank Riepl and Dick Koze. Sebo does not expect either player to see action, especially since the weather will make running quite treacherous for two sprinters...
...which gave birth to the nation, was Protestant, pragmatic, rationalistic. Once when a customer complained that Portraitist Gilbert Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the artist flushed and grated: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach!" Then the romantic spirit of the 19th century added its profound effect. Toward the end of that century, Albert Pinkham Ryder remarked that an artist "should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form...
...year. Yet there was enough disturbing news on the nation's economic front last week to reinforce fears that 1957's fourth quarter, while good by most normal standards, might not be up to the ever-rising boom-time standards the U.S. has come to expect. Personal income dropped off for the first time since January 1956; department-store sales across the country were off 1% for the week, and carloadings showed a decline. The rate of business failures for the first half was higher than in 1956, and industrial output for September declined...