Word: expection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work toward that end. . . ."; 2) James Henry Thomas, "Balance wheel of British Labor," Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen: "Do you realize that at this moment 45,000 railwaymen are out of work, and 200,000 are working only three days a week? Yet the striking coal miners expect us to aid them by contributions and to levy an embargo on foreign coal. We cannot and we will not! It is impossible." [Sporadic hisses and jeers...
...gold instead of tennis than a great actor planning to enter on his greatest artistic triumph. All this is somewhat disappointing; and it may be that, in an excess of caution Mr. Barrymore is hiding behind this casualness. Still, it has a natural air; and, although the reader might expect soul-stirring revelations, his Anglo-Saxon temperament is vaguely relieved to find that this artist leave such things to the imagination and keeps his stirrings deep within him. It is too true that "show-business" is a business first, and an art afterwards, even in the published memoirs...
...succeeded in warding off Dartmouth scores by the air route, Yale must be on her guard Saturday against the ubiquitous pass. So long as Dooley, the doughty Green quarterback is in the game with his strong arm and unerring aim, just so long must an opposing team expect a possible touchdown from...
...need not say that no new agreements were concluded or projected. My own view is that these meetings serve the cause of peace and that our countries may well be content to see us meet from time to time, though they must not expect the whole world to change because we have conversation...
...Cambridge delegation will encounter representatives of Columbia and Bates prior to its arrival in Boston, and will argue with the Holy Cross debating team on Friday night, October 29. They then expect to halt in their journey for a week-end at Northampton, where they will attempt to have the last word in a debate with the Smith speakers...