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Word: expections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that may well be used to describe this sister college of the Orient, when one remembers that a brief score of years has seen its growth into one of the leading institutions of the world's largest nation. The process of growth has been no smoother than one might expect in a city where a semi-monthly revolution or two is the ordinary distraction from academic pursuits, but the present year has seen important development in a unified administration looking forward to still greater progress under President Hume...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 6/10/1924 | See Source »

...reporters of the various newspapers who do present the facts in the same news column, correctly. It takes an editorial writer, however, to exercise the imagination of a Munchausen, and these gentlemen deliberately lie, because they distort the language as it appears in the newspaper columns, and I shall expect every member of the House to bear me out in the proposition when I quote from this leading editorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Re Munchausen | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

Concluding, the note said: "In any event, the present situation, which is the source of constant difficulty, cannot be allowed to continue and the Allied Governments depend on the German Government to understand it is for the general interest for it to make an immediate favorable decision. They, therefore, expect the German Government will notify them as soon as possible, and in any case before June 30, that it accepts the proposition made in the present note concerning general inspection and the consequent limitation of control to five classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Down Arms! | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

American jazz artists, much incensed, expect a protest from Secretary Hughes. Vincent Lopez, famed Manhattan jazz conductor, ejaculated: "If this is official action by the French Government it is a slap at America. It seems hardly possible that such could be the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In France,: In France | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

...fight will not go down in the official records, because Indiana laws do not permit decision bouts. The only reward of the boxers was the fun of the thing-and the money. Of the latter, Carp received $70,000, and Gibbons, $61,781. Cheese Factory. Descamps and Carpentier expect to take their $70,000 and put it into the manufacture of small round wooden cheese boxes. They already have a profitable business in cheese boxes, the demand for which is on the increase. Flyweight

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carp vs. Gibbons | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

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