Word: expected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairmen Christopher M. Martin '49 and Waldo H. Heinrichs Jr, '49 of the Social Service Committee, and N. Conant Webb Jr. '49 sent out 1800 tickets to the various settlement houses and agencies, and expect that two-thirds of these will be used. The show will be limited to kids over 12 years...
...private investigator tracked Mrs. William Pratt, 37, mother of three, to a dingy $14-a-month shack in Binghamton, N.Y., notified her and her unemployed husband that oil had been discovered on an Illinois farm which her grandfather" had once owned. She could expect an income that might run to $18,000 a year. Grandfather had sold the farm but kept the mineral rights, and willed them to his heirs...
...with squelching the Communist uprising of 1918. Fritz, the son, opposed Hitlerism at first and spent years in a concentration camp, but finally weakened and worked under the Nazis as a publishing house director. He is now generally known as a drunkard, a weakling and a turncoat. Many Germans expect the Russians to give him the heaveho as soon as they have exploited his name...
After the dinner Mr. Charles W. Duhig, graduate secretary of PBH, spoke about the meaning and value of PBH work. "We all expect something in return for the work we do," Duhig said. "What is the value we receive from social service? We broaden our understanding of people. Success often depends more on this breadth of understanding than on skill...
There are two additional hardships put upon the audience and the actors by the modernization that possibly did not occur to the Idlers. Modern audiences expect modern plays (as this one now is) to have a plot they can follow or else no plot at all. "The Way of the World" contains the world's most complicated plot: when seeing it done in Restoration style the plot rightly seems of no importance; when it becomes a play of Cafe Society, there is a natural and frustrating inclination to try and figure...