Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...improper practices until, precisely as in the case of our banking structure, we may be able to establish fairly definite and generally accepted standards for distinguishing the sound from the unsound, the real from the specious? When installment selling comes to be measured by these criteria, we may expect to learn that the innocuous and the salutary must not be confounded with the inappropriate and the regrettable, and that, in its ultimate and refined forms, installment credit will be recognized as constituting a significant and valuable contribution to the modern economy...
...Treasury begged [J. P.] Morgan for 50 millions, which he refused, thundering 'Impossible!' Then they came to me and I went 'round to see what I could do: He was greatly upset and overcharged, nearly wept, put his head in his hands and cried: 'They expect the impossible!' So I calmed him down and told him to give me an hour and by that time I cabled for ten millions from Europe for the Standard Oil and ten more from other resources and came back. I told him: 'I have twenty millions...
...latter races are by far the more important and the week during which they are rowed is known as "Eights week". It constitutes a social event of no mean importance in the life of the undergraduate. It is then that his family and lady friends, the two sometimes clash, expect, to be invited to Oxford, taken out in punts and given tea on the barge...
...listen to jokes in which the protagonists are Harvard men, laugh, do not seek to reason why so-and-so went there kid so-and-so for having gone there, bet on the football game, the New London classic event, win, lose, forget all about it. I should expect to find neatly pressed clothing, red neckties, large wardrobes, pocket books and imaginations prevalent among the undergraduate body. I should realize, having quit the laissez-faire atmosphere of Yale for the savoir-faire atmosphere of Harvard, my intellectual inferiority to those who majestically point out buildings, tell...
...would say that he, Edward Kidwell was a "pretty good yes-and-no-man" and that he was "just putting in his time" at $5 per day but not paying a whole lot of attention to the evidence. The soft-drink boys sarcastically asked him if he did not expect to get something more than $5 per day out of the trial? perhaps a snappy automobile? Juror Kidwell hoped to tell them he expected an automobile. "If I don't have one as long as this block," he boasted, "I'll be kind of disappointed...