Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, in a bedside manner familiar to many an ailing big business, Expert Bernays was ready to tell the patient all. "If the rate of decline continues," he warned at the outset, "in a decade or two we may expect to see the legitimate theater in New York disappear completely . . . [But] in spite of everything, the American people like the theater more than ever before, if it meets their desires and needs...
...Editors Boucher and McComas are so confident that they expect Fantasy to become a monthly. Says Boucher: "The detective story is getting into a blind alley of repetition. Science fiction may be the next big escape...
Only the incurable optimists in the crowd will be looking for a Harvard victory today, but everybody can expect some mighty fine football when the home season opens at 2 p.m. this afternoon. Cornell, a team which is rated first in the East and among the top ten in the nation, will provide the opposition, and if speed, depth, and coordination mean anything it could make a messy homecoming for the Crimson...
University policy have announced that they expect no trouble this evening, but the major part of the Yard force will still be assigned to cover the rally. The police had little trouble at last year's parades, despite firecrackers, car-thumping, and an occassional effigy bonfire...
...examples of what the college may expect, they cite such plans as a more efficient faculty rating system; reduced transportation rates for student travel; a lodging bureau, which will enable men to quarter their weekend dates at local women's schools; and several other projects which represent substantial savings to undergraduates...