Word: expected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema learned an easy trick from Grand Hotel. The mishaps and heroics of Channel Crossing occur on a boat from Dover to Calais. The minor passengers, all garrulous in British accents as thick as the fog that comes down half way across the Channel, are what alert cinemaddicts expect to find in such surroundings: a comic cuckold (Nigel Bruce), a terse captain, a deck steward with a teething baby. Lang performs with too much solemnity, but a sound formula and good acting by handsome Constance Cummings make the picture another British threat to Hollywood. Typical shot: the financier, just after...
...through its action storing chemically the power from the sun in a more efficient way than can be done through the growth of plants is an enticing one.-Physicist Arthur Holly Compton. ¶ The life of man upon this earth is 70 years. A child born today may expect to live 60 years instead of the 35 years it could expect in 1833. -In the 21st Century ... we shall see the majority of mankind approximating three score years and ten.-Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association Journal. ¶ Facsimile radio, that is, the sending of pictures...
...institution for the dissemination of knowledge and enlightenment it is fitting that it should make easily accessible by the public information and devices which have bearing on matters of health and therapeutics. Men on the faculty who invent and perfect such devices do so certainly not because they expect to derive profits from their inventions, but because they have a genuine scientific and humanitarian interest in the subject. For a man to invent some therapeutic machine and then patent it so that it can not be duplicated or perfected in indeed to display a total lack of altruistic and humanitarian...
...multicolored uniforms of the 60 schools is annually one of the brilliant spectacles that adorns the Stadium. Harvard's major interest centers around the Class A battle and Eddie Farrell will scan the results carefully in order to get an idea of the freshman team that he may expect next year...
...towards the creation of a system which will provide the civil service with men specially trained, for responsible positions. Studying intensively for a year in preparation for some particular branch of public service and then working for another year in the field under the guidance of an expect, the fellowship holder is more adequately prepared to enter the civil service than those who apply for the positions without any training or special ability...