Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favored position of maniacs legally puts a premium on insanity, which forces the shrewdest wrongdoers to put in a plea of lunacy if they are to expect clemency. Modern nations do all in their power to reclaim the hopelessly insane criminal and at the same time punish the sane man of perverted ideals as rigorously as the prevailing idea of justice permits...
...points this year. Half of the points would insure a victory and we aim to utilize our strength in the track events to run up a safe margin. In the six track events, excepting the high hurdles there will be a distribution of 54 points of which we expect to capture...
...President Coolidge, facing reporters in his usual conference, intimated that he did not expect to spend next summer at Swampscott; that if it was true, as reported, that Congressman Davey of Ohio had said (TIME, Feb. 15 POLITICAL NOTES) that $500,000,000 could be saved by having fewer Federal employes and keeping them on the job, the Congressman was mistaken; that as for the Senate's resolution asking him to enter the negotiations in the anthracite strike, it gave him no authority, did not alter the deadlock, and he saw no more reason for intervening than...
...that most of those arrested were Spanish. Sister Margaret Semple, a U. S. citizen, principal of the Roman Catholic Visitation Academy for girls at Mexico City, formally complained to Ambassador Sheffield and declared that the Mexican authorities have warned her that she must cease her educational activities or expect to be deported immediately...
Although I am sorely tempted by Professor Gay's lecture this morning in Harvard 1 on "Western Expansion", wherein he will emphasize the points of free land and scarce labor even a vagabond cannot be in two places at once, and at 9 o'clock, I expect to hear Professor Tatlock instead. He is speaking in Sever 30 on "Social Conditions of the Restoration Drama." It was Mr. Basil Dean who was recently interviewed to the effect that the drama of today, because of comparable social conditions bears certain startling resemblances to that of the period which Professor Tatlock...