Word: expected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important for everyone to know, the Cardinal's statement said, just what the Catholics were and were not asking for. "We are not asking for general public support of religious schools . . . Under the Constitution we do not ask nor can we expect public funds to pay for the construction or repair of parochial school buildings, or for the support of teachers...
Since boys are often slower than girls in learning to talk as well as to write, Dr. Greene believes that possibly "we expect too much of boys ... in their early years. Our expectations that they should attain the same level of speech performance as girls of like age, when they have not attained the same level of nervous and muscular maturation, may often result in feelings of inadequacy and insecurity, and cause [speech disorders...
...Perhaps," Dr. Greene suggests, "if parents and teachers were to expect less of boys than of girls in the way of speech development at any given age level, there would be fewer male speech sufferers at later stages." The importance of the early years is shown by the fact that 90% of stutterers began stuttering...
...Havilland has orders for 14 Comets from British Overseas Airways Corp. and British South American Airways Corp but it does not expect to see any of them in actual passenger service for two or three years. Like all new aircraft, the plane must undergo elaborate flight tests. But De Havilland claims to have licked one great problem: noise. The scream of the jet engines is for innocent bystanders only; it is hardly heard on board...
...would still gross about 153,765 drachmas ($15.25) a mule, but Mahmout, who had been doing a lot of traveling, thought the profit figure would be pared sharply by his expenses. Missouri's Ferd Owen agreed. Said he: "It was a pretty close deal. I don't expect to make much on it, but I think the Turk will make even less...