Word: expection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent origin and not a custom hoary with age as is generally supposed. Traditions become weighted with seeming importance through their long continuance, but they should not be allowed to interfere with real progress. It would be absolutely incompatible with the purpose and spirit of the House Plan to expect Seniors who had previously spent two years in one of the Houses to break the associations formed during this time and herd together in the Yard during their last year...
...people expect as much from you . . . as they would have expected from Mr. Roosevelt under similar circumstances. Surely your Administration could assemble the banking and financial leaders of the nation and insist that they cooperate with the government in reviving confidence and restoring normal prices...
...expect sympathy from us. You look too healthy," bantered Cabinet colleagues when the Secretary of War complained, at Cabinet meeting last week, of a pain in his abdomen. By the next morning the pain was a stabbing torment. A cluster of doctors, including Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Lieut.-Commander Joel T. Boone, the President's physician, had sent James William Good to have his appendix...
...Manhattan engineering firm, testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted such a ship at a dinner of New Haven's august Union League Club. Westcott & Mapes are now estimating their bids on the structural work of not one, but two such planes. The builders expect that the first will be wrecked by the ineptitude of navigators with such a mighty machine. The lessons they learn in wrecking the first plane they can apply to flying the second. Each will have at least a dozen 1,000-h. p. motors, will be able to carry...
...fortune on the outcome of my predictions today. Maybe you didn't know there was a Mrs. Huey; well strictly speaking you are right; really it is the Misses Huey, which is only an old Chinese way of saying that I like variety. But then I wouldn't expect my new countrymen to catch on to oriental customs yet so I will leave a detailed discussion of that subject until a later date...