Word: expectable
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...whole of the Channel ports are in his hands, with all the strategic consequences that follow from that, and we must expect another blow to be struck almost immediately at us or at France...
Before the summer is over, track fans expect Blozis to smash Torrance's world's outdoor mark for 16 lb. (57 ft. 1 in.) as well. Six weeks ago, in the Penn Relay Carnival, he started out creditably with a 55 ft. 5⅜ in. toss that broke the meet record by almost three feet. Last week, in the Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. track meet, held in a downpour at Harvard's Stadium, the Georgetown giant, skidding around in ankle-deep mud, heaved the slippery cannonball 53 ft. 6⅜ in., later...
...York Ship (TIME, May 20) is a leading beneficiary of Franklin Roosevelt's five-year-old naval and merchant marine construction boom. To holders of other capital-goods securities, landlocked by heavy arrearages, New York Ship's performance was a pleasant omen of what they may expect when National Defense moves inland...
...next and last issue of the "Advocate" (available within a week), contains illustrations by Howard Turner which, in certain cases, excel the characteristic finesse which his past performances have led us to expect. His drawing for "The Mother" exemplifies Turner's economy of line in relation to the idea which he desires to express. He manages, fully and with apparent case, to convey the implications and framework of the story for which his illustration is created, without confusing the reader. Turner shows imagination, a sense of coherence, and an intelligent suppression of detail in his work...
...Torrid Zone" isn't as bad a picture as one would expect it to be. This still leaves it stranded somewhere in the Guatemalan jungles, but even a white man can put up with an hour or so down there. Ann Sheridan, of course, cooperates with the mosquitoes and the yellow fever to make the place unpleasant. There were some rather crude members of the audience at the Metropolitan who whistled at certain sequences built upon her specialized sort of appeal, but it is hard to see why. While it is true that she has learned from Busby Berkeley...