Word: expection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sail for the canal zone. From Manhattan Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, sailed for Porto Rico; he will arrive to inspect the canal just as General Dawes ends his brief visit. What Mr. Stearns and the Congressmen saw, what Vice President Dawes a,nd Secretary Davis expect to see, few could guess. But many knowing U. S. citizens link their holiday interest in the Panama Canal with the facts that Navy officers have declared the canal indefensible in time of war a,nd the rumored plans of a new canal through Nicaragua where Adolfo Diaz sits...
Should two onetime Presidents of the U. S. undertake to manage the government of a city, that city might well expect to get good government. Similarly Tampa, Fla., looked forward last week to having a model newspaper. The local Tribune was sold by the syndicate of Tampa businessmen that had owned it since 1925, to President John Stewart Bryan of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and his predecessor in that office, S. Emory Thomason. Old friends, the new partners paid a booming price for their property-$900,000-and assumed all liabilities. They said they believed in Tampa, believed...
...other time, there is no reason why it should lessen the intrinsic value of the securities of the Cities Service Co. by a single dollar. I have taken no part in the routine work of the company since the U. S. got into the World War and never expect again to take an active part in the routine work. I wish people would let me alone...
...suspicion of bias or weakness of judgement. For why should "Shef" rank Greta Garbo high among the beloved actresses of the screen, at the same time entirely neglecting Lya de Putti? Since the attractions of these two charming ladies are closely allied by a certain common denominator, one would expect them to be equally appreciated by the Yale man-about-Chapel-Street, so renowned in ribald Princeton and Harvard verse. So we earnest hope that this balloting will not bring on an epidemic of inferiority complex at either college. Daily Princetonian, March...
Quiet and restful is the picture of Marblehead in Brewster's study of New England. The way he leads you on to expect one thing and then gives you another is the most amusing and distinguished bit of writing in the whole number...