Word: expected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some years he has been a sort of press agent for the gas and electric people. . . . According to Charlie they [the Insull group] expect to round up fifty or sixty of the biggest papers. . . ." Mr. Grozier said he thought Mr. O'Malley had been "talking through his hat," and anyway his Post was not for sale...
Brother-in-law Gramm was promptly arrested, charged with the offense of which Congressman Michaelson is cleared. He hired the Congressman's lawyer, used the same $2,000 cash for bail, remarked dolefully: "I'm sorry. I didn't expect this...
...editorial would lead one to believe. By its very nature debating is not a profitable motivity. Harvard is one of the few colleges in the country which does not afford debating a subsidy of from $250 to $5000 annually. It is one of the few colleges which expect debating to pay, and one of the many in which it does...
There were half a dozen houses and dinner tables in Cambridge to which he went with pleasure, houses where he seemed to find a solace in the neighborhood of his kind. But human beings were an exceptional luxury. He had never learned to expect them. They never became necessities of his daily life, and I doubt if he missed them when they were absent...
...will be able to land on a field we cannot see. Fog flying is hazardous now, but I expect that within the next few years we will be able to fly through almost any kind of weather. So that conditions being somewhere near equal in regard to fog, I think distance from the city would be of primary importance...