Word: expection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lambert, her owner, received a radio from the captain who was sailing back from Cowes to the U. S.; two days before the hurricane reached Porto Rico, he reported that he had encountered ari 80-mile gale, the worst in his experience. His radio message was brief: "Did not expect ship to live through. Everybody well. . . . Slight damage to starboard launch...
GRACE HAYS singing: I MUST HAVE THAT MAN-I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE. We can but quote statistics: Release date: next Friday (Oct, 5). We expect to sell: about 500. We will have in our shop and that's all we can get at the time: 100. Orders for the record on our books up to yesterday morning: 60. In the store at present: One lonely sample which is liable to break anytime. Therefore SWEET ELLA MAY - THERE'LL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU. Jacques Renard did it. We didn't believe it possible...
...Royalist, and I am proud ot it. I will fight for the Royalist flag any old time so tell me what the news is about my countree. I depend on your magazine for the news and you look like you are scared to tell me the news. I will expect to hear from...
...Vice President H. P. Davis warned: "Television, in so far as present accomplishments warrant, has been 'overplayed.' . . . Unfortunately, this has created the opportunity to foist on the public, much as in the early days of radio, a widespread sale of unsuitable apparatus, which those who purchase naturally expect will permit them to view television broadcasts, but which will only lead to disappointment and dissatisfaction. . . . The gawkish period in the development of television should be passed in the laboratories...
General Electric's Manager of Broadcasting Martin P. Rice was somewhat less admonitory: "The experimenter should guard well against ignorant or unscrupulous dealers. . . . With many hundreds dabbling in the new art, there is reason to expect that the record of television will parallel that of radio broadcasting...