Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Olympic items: ¶ A bland announcement from an Italian official that Italy will take third place in the games. "Naturally we do not expect to beat America," he said. He did not say who he expected would be second...
...friend who writes in red ink on the wrapper, we can supplement his generalities with particulars. For in many of his lines Mr. Wolf strikes chords strangely similar to those touched by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Sarah Teasdale. But always he is masculine as we might expect of one who in a short but varied career has been at different times army officer, instructor of economics, reporter, radical propagandist, vagabond, and poet...
...high ranking men in the State was something of a surprise. Handicapped as he was by an unfamiliar court, it is doubtful if the B. A. A. representative could at any time have defeated the University Captain in the form he flashed today. Powers never knew what to expect as the dazzling succession of hard-hit smashes, drop volleys, and accurate corner shots won point after point for Dixon...
...possible, of course, that the readng public may in time become satiated with its highly perfumed garbage. . . . The utmost we have the right to expect is that the country may be brought to realize in what direction its press is moving, and with what speed...
...sober black, and are notoriously slow and tedious. Like their French counter parts most of them depend on one or two cylinder motors of ancient vintage, often so small that they defy discovery in times of trouble. But the yellow invasion will change all this. It must not be expected that any New York promoter will be satisfied to send only five hundred taxis to so promising a field for exploitation as London. And since New York taxis reach their maximum efficiency only when manipulated by New York chauffeurs, one must expect a proportional exportation of these valuable citizens. London...