Word: expected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elevators are confined to hotels, shops, and offices, in nearly all Europeans cities. The less pretentious hotels provide elevator service to take guest upstairs, but expect them to walk down. All but the most luxurious apartment houses have no elevators whatever. In Scandinavia there have installed a few unattened "never stop elevators," the cars of which pass slowly and continuously from floor to floor while agile passengers leap...
...year. Take the victory of the Leyden of Maine in the Penn Relays as an example. He cleared more than 195 feet, within an arms reach of the present Intercollegiate record. When a man can make such a throw in mid-April it is impossible to estimate what to expect of him when the competition begins in the big meet of the year...
...This committee has investigated certain of the annual funds which are usually subscribed by the College. The Phillips Brooks House will expect $4,000 from the College, and we see no reason why this should not be guaranteed to it by the Student Council. The Class Funds will require a varying amount, subject to certain difficulties which will be explained below, which can roughly be estimated as $4,000 per annum. The Student Council itself should have the expenditure of certain funds in its own hands, for the expenses of delegates to intercollegiate conference and for such incidental expenses...
Very little is known of the strength of the Lehigh netmen except that they lost to Princeton. Although the Crimson players are looking for several close matches they expect to emerge victorious, comparative score against Princeton being in their favor...
...almost as important an announcement as if a prizefighter, for publicity purposes, had refused a championship title. Not quite so important; the prizefighter would have got an extra, but the man whose solemn, blunt features appeared under the slug had certainly derived as much attention as he could expect from a purely intellectual issue. It was, of course, Sinclair Lewis; he had refused the Pulitzer Prize of $1,000 awarded to him for Arrowsmith...