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Word: expections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Either these two new servants expect Mr. Coolidge to renew his lease on the White House, or they are content to take temporary jobs for six months or so. If Mr. Coolidge should not be elected, the new tenant will engage other help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Bancroft and Sheffield | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

...Every honest man is as indignant as Mr. Davis is at a betrayal by anyone of the high trust of public office, but they also expect that in discussing a matter of such importance our political orators seek to present facts in their proper and correct relation to the welfare of the people. Common sense and fairness alike revolt at the suggestion that these individual derelictions, which the Administration has set out to punish, should outweigh, in the judgment of American citizens, the honesty and the accomplishments of the most successful business administration of Government our people have ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Maine | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

...would make clearly and definitely one other requirement-that no individual or group of individuals may expect any governmental favors in return for party assistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Candidate Coolidge | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

...York Herald-Tribune-"All the ingredients which one has come to expect in polite musical comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 25, 1924 | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

...with the open market rate on acceptances of 2 to 1⅞%, and call money at 2. It has also been surmised that the new rate indicated that the Bank sought to expend its loans to earn more money, and that it indicated that the Reserve authorities did not expect higher money rates this Fall to any considerable extent. This latter conjecture is important if true; a sudden rise in money rates would not only prove a real shock to security traders, but interrupt much foreign and domestic financing, including perhaps several railroad mergers now under discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reserve Rate Cut | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

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