Word: expectation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...like teaching a boy all there is to know about shooting rubber-tipped arrows from his bow, and expecting him never to try a steel-tipped shaft. Meselson would say that the rubber-tipped arrows are nice, but the steel-tipped ones are more horrible than anything now known. Can you expect a boy to refrain from experimenting, just once...
...N.Y.U. always has the cream of New York City, the fencing center of the country," Marion said. "But tomorrow I expect a score pretty much like two years...
...parietal extension would necessitate some system of floating proctors, McLoughlin said, because "you can't expect any proctor to stay in his room to supervise every Saturday night...
...Gill, Lecturer on Ecoomics, likes to tell Ec 1 students that his field is a sort-of science as it is now, and that it would be more of science if there were a laboratory in which to test economic theory. "After all," he says, "you can't expect the government to raise taxes a bit so we can see what happens, can you?" This gets a laugh, perhaps because it comes early in the year when it is especially nice to get a principle of economics dirt cheap...
...meet is close going into the final two matches, the Crimson can expect trouble. At 177, M.I.T. has sophomore Keith Davies, last year's freshman New England champ. And at heavyweight, there is 220-pound Dave Shramm, the captain of the team and last year's varsity New England champ...