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Word: expections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conditions which brought these men to Congress have passed. Another set of conditions is coming about in which we may again expect to see a few Negroes in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Black Representatives | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...natural processes, a sort of free state of Negroes would develop in the Southern U. S. C Dr. Frank C. Shrubsall, President of the Anthropological Section of the As sociation, declared that there has been no deterioration of human physique during the historical period, that, furthermore, man's expectation of life has grown by leaps and bounds. A child of five in ancient Egypt might expect to live to be 35; a child of five in Rome of the Caesars might expect to live to be 29; a child of five in London today may expect to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Savants | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...finger in the stew. Daily bulletins from Paris told how the world was being reordered by the arbiters of destiny. But then the Democratic Party, the party of participation, was in power here. Now the Republican Party, the party of isolation, is in power, and accordingly one would expect matters to be very different, at least on the sur face. This is, indeed, the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Abroad | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...tells us to worship a God in our own image. We are black, and to be in our image God must , be black. Our people have been lynched and burned in the South because we have been worshiping a false God. But what can you expect when we have adopted the idolism of another race? We must create a God of our own and give this new religion to the Negroes of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Garvey Again | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...without injuring the roadway?hitherto the real problem in bus and truck operation. According to Mr. Schwab, there are 2,941,274 miles of highways in the U. ,S. compared with 251,175 miles of steam railways and 47,150 miles of electric and street railways. He does not expect his new six-wheel buses and trucks to compete with railways "except in segregated instances," but rather to act as feeders to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Six-Wheelers | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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