Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect to bray like jackasses, and bark like dogs, crow like roosters, howl like wolves, kick like mules, run like lightning, lie like Satan-all for thee. And now, may faith, hope and power remain with thee until every vote is counted," et cetera...
...actual deficit will be caused by the Special Budget, composed of "recoverable expenditures," i. e., payment of pensions and interest or reparations loans, attributable to Germany under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. This Special Budget calls for $639,324,000 and as the French do not expect the Germans to pay any of this sum is will be a deadweight burden. The ordinary budget, however, places the sum of $157,500,000 at the disposal of the Special Budget. Thus, the deficit for reparations after subtracting the advance from the ordinary budget and the surplus on the ordinary...
Marcus" Loew has purchased for $850,000 the Lexington Avenue Opera House, Manhattan, which was built by the late Oscar Hammerstein, and which has been used off and on for the production of lyric dramas. Mr. Loew will turn this theatre into a motion picture house. You might expect doleful complaints and bitter comments from the partisans of Art, but Mephisto in Musical America takes the transaction rather philosophically. Says...
...says this is one who has done a perishable work. How about him who seeks to build solidly but falls? The work that he has not done is left undone, but if this be from lack of tools or opportunity, and not from negligence or moral fault, he can expect to hear the judgement, "well done, good and faithful servant", for that comes as the reward not of success, but of moral effort...
...back as 1912 a committee headed by the late Stuyvesant Fish reported in favor of reducing the number of hours. In 1921 Judge Gary said: " We expect to make the elimination of the twelve-hour day complete during the next year." But the recent adverse report of the Iron and Steel Institute, according to the protest of the indignant churches, "shatters public confidence...