Word: expected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relied upon to turn up pleasantly in an obstreperous foreign port or an corrective note may be dutifully dispatched to Mexico at oil's behest. Occasionally these acts are justified; often of dubious propriety. At all events the inevitable cut to take from this motherly care is to expect more pampering, even in France where the docility of a Siberia is hardly operative...
...Lacrosse practice has been going on for some time in spite of unfavorable weather, and a squad of about 40 men has been reporting regularly," said Coach Irving Lydeker yesterday. "Weather conditions have held the team back greatly, but we expect to get out for scrimmage this week...
...they hire at small salaries. Not to test their knowledge, because all question concerning that has been satisfied upon a basis of grades, but to test their qualities of ingenuity and industry, of stamina and adaptability. A university graduate may feel that he has a right to expect of his university that it equip him to step at once into a profitable position, but this view over-looks the contraption, necessary to any successful career, which the individual alone can make...
...President told reporters that he did not expect to establish a summer White House away from Washington this year. His absences from the Capital would probably be brief. He might, he said, go to Denver to make a speech, might also go to Atlanta for a similar purpose...
...before when he was a boy of 22, for deserting from the Army. Since then he has won the Distinguished Service Medal and Croix de Guerre in France. He said to the warden: "I shall do my best to obey every rule of the institution, and I do not expect to be shown any favors over other prisoners. If I am assigned to shoveling coal, I shall not make the slightest complaint. I am willing to do anything you may require...