Word: expected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year, Long Island will lack both the World's Heavyweight Championship prizefight and the international yacht races which it has been taught to expect...
Furthermore I expect to be deserted by all my wives, sweethearts and beautiful female operatives as soon as they are unfortunate enough to peruse a copy of TIME. Such a calamity would react upon your paper in that "news" might become scarce over night. On the other hand, picture the handicaps I might be forced to labor under, in any plans to destroy Wall Street: to lower the value of Florida real estate by a bombing raid and alas, worst blow of all, to deprive the Hearst publications and the fair State of California of the chance to shout...
Nine Days a Queen has the qualities cinemaddicts have learned to expect from British historical studies: smart writing, fine playing, meticulous setting and casting, an august reverence for Empire. U. S. audiences, whether they have read English history or not, will have some idea of it after they have seen John Knox (John Laurie) preaching in Whitehall Palace yard; Edward Seymour (Felix Aylmer) passing sentence on his brother Thomas (Leslie Perrins) ; the pompous details of a 16th Century beheading...
...concentration he has elected, usually to a tutor attached to his own House. Of the tutorial staff of each House about 10 are resident in the House and the rest have temporary studies there. The student meets his tutor about once a week, eats with him occasionally, and is expected, in one way or another to absorb a good deal of learning and to benefit from the intimate intellectual contacts. At the same time every upperclassman carries a regular schedule of courses, expect that men out for honors can secure a reduction in the number during their Senior year...
...part it is a treasury of common sayings: "Don't expect too much." . .-"How can you compete with a skunk...