Word: expectable
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this war Lord Lothian explained the real prize is sea power, the issue "freedom or tyranny." Sometime next spring he expected the crisis-when the Germans would attack with "all the ferocity and ruthlessness the Nazis have taught us to expect...
...smelling plaster casts. French doctors, fearing development of gas gangrene, began to amputate, left & right. Before they had done much bone-sawing, they found to their amazement that cases of gangrene were very rare. Normally, even in arm or leg wounds which had been disinfected and bandaged, they could expect more than ten cases of gangrene per 1,000. But only a score of the wounded soldiers had become infected. And none of them had been given antiseptics; only thin gauze drains separated the plaster casts from their lacerated flesh...
Last November, University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins predicted in a Saturday Evening Post article that endowed universities, would become poorer, could expect few big gifts in the future. "Universities in the same area," he concluded, "will have to combine." (President Hutchins had already proposed that Chicago and Northwestern University merge.) Events soon showed that U. S. philanthropy is unpredictable. Last fortnight President Hutchins was obliged to announce one of the richest hauls in University of Chicago's history-a total of $8,000,000 in December. Major item: the $3,500,000 Lake Forest estate...
...huddle system was made necessary by the development of big, rackety stadiums, which drowned out the quarterback's voice. Time was when a team snapping out of the huddle could expect to find the defense dug in, pretty much as they last faced it. But lately the defense has been huddling too, then deploying into unpredictable formations...
...Bonneville-Grand Coulee area of Oregon and Washington is far from eastern and midwestern markets; freighting costs are high. Private utilitarians pointed out that they had tried for years to overcome these handicaps. Asked how Federal amateurs could expect to do better, Paul Raver's retort was the Aluminum Co. contract. "A nice Christmas present," he called it. He now expects to convince many more processors (chiefly of metals and chemicals) that they can save enough with ultracheap power to pay for the long hauls of raw materials and finished goods...