Word: expected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect too much of Stanley Baldwin ? Britain's Prime Minister?in the way of dress, pose or convention... To the man on the street Stanley Baldwin will appear "a nice-looking fellow." He might also be described as "chock full of common sense." Both inferences are correct. Mr. Baldwin comes from the "better" class of Englishmen, but he can be just as charming keeping pigs down on his Worcestershire farm as in the presence of his Majesty the King as a representative of the British people's will...
...striking difference between Mr. Speers' articles of one week ago and those of last week was the growing evidence of protest against the Federal Government. The argument is not so much that Congress should meet and quickly solve the problem of flood control. The people of Louisiana do expect that the next session of Congress will concern itself with the problem of preventing future floods, but they are most interested in having something done to alleviate the results of the flood that has just ruined them. What they most resent is the attitude, apparently prevailing at Washington, that...
...will happen to them when the Red Cross funds run out and winter comes down on the impoverished country. Said Mr. Barham: (above mentioned) : "I think it is the duty of the Government to do something. . . . Don't you think it rather childish, to put it mildly, to expect the Red Cross with $15,000,000 to handle the whole problem, the damage bill alone of which will exceed $500,000,000? ... I don't know whether Mr. Coolidge is interested in these flood victims or not. . . . I don't recall reading where he has said...
...physician must not expect as much money as a man of corresponding ability who is engaged in business. He must not expect as much leisure. He must realize he is an emergency man. Like the fireman, he must come sliding down the brass pole at the first sound of alarm...
...science perfects means of returning the stolen goods, it seems to us to be the duty of business to admit the theft and to make amends by acceping the contributions of science. If we were to view this move solely as an investment, on which we might expect a profitable return, we are confident that vitaglazed windows of our new building would give us that return in a newly invigorated personnel and a lessened absentee list...