Word: expected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Ortiz belongs to none of Argentina's influential "old families." From an importing firm and small law practice in 1910 he has built a $4,000,000 fortune. Last week, as he took over the Presidency, he had the backing of foreign and Argentine financial interests, who expect an era of good business under their businessman-President. In a country where foreign capital has some $4,000,000,000 invested and where exports of the livestock and agricultural barons are 90% of the nation's business, it looked as if they would get what they wanted...
...down to bare narratives which later generations preserved partly through tradition, partly because men found similar patterns in their own experience. And while both Joseph and His Brothers and its sequel Young Joseph contained the lifelike characterizations that readers of Thomas Mann's modern novels had come to expect from him, they contained some thing more-a sense of the submerged and forgotten origins of men's beliefs...
...saying nothing. As far as suggestions for relieving America's 39,700 fatalities are concerned, this speaker also remains mute. In short, these two speakers disappointed their public, and this is a direct reflection on the Bureau for whom they spoke. Surely it is not too much to expect of experts that they give, instead of vague generalizations, some real suggestions. Future speakers should bear in mind that while the public may not want technical dissertations, they do demand logical analysis, coupled with some original information. That is but the true function of research...
Recently tests here proved that the average driver can see an obstacle only about half as far away when he does not expect it as when he does expect it, according to Roper. Light-colored objects were also discovered to be twice as visible as dark-colored once...
...Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek apparently does not expect to defeat the Japanese forces by direct attacks but hopes that (1 they will soon conquer all the land they want and then cease righting, 2 other foreign nations will step in to check the invasion, 3 the League of Nations will be sufficiently effective in taking action that will force Japan to withdraw, 4 the United States will come to his aid because of the sinking of the Panay, 5 in time Japan will defeat herself through lack of resources...