Word: expected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FORTUNE'S conclusions: 1) "Republicans cannot expect to defeat Truman merely by selecting at random any one of their present aspirants"; 2) "Dewey comes most readily to the minds of those who want to defeat Truman...
...nature as "the whole show," with no room for a creative God in the picture, will be baffled or repelled. But those who accept the basic Christian concept of a Creator-God will be rewarded with a full measure of the quality Lewis' devotees have come to expect-a strictly unorthodox presentation of strict orthodoxy...
...correction. Christian theology, and quantum physics, are both, by comparison with the first guess, hard, complex, dry and repellent. The first shock of the object's real nature, breaking in on our spontaneous dreams of what that object ought to be, always has these characteristics. You must not expect Shrödinger to be as plausible as Democritus; he knows too much. You must not expect St. Athanasius to be as plausible as Mr. Bernard Shaw: he also knows too much...
Despite a low moan now & then about a possible depression, U.S. business is feeling no pain. One of the best long-range indicators of what businessmen expect is their spending for new plants and equipment. In its current monthly bulletin, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia states that such expenditures are now running at a record annual rate of $16 billion, more than three times the annual average for the two decades preceding...
...also dodged one potential political hot spot by turning down a speaking date before an expected 200,000 A.F.L. and C.I.O. members at a Chicago Labor Day celebration. Labor would expect him to blast the Taft-Hartley Act, but he could hardly do that to labor's satisfaction on a law he was now duty-bound to administer...