Word: expectable
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Like most superathletes, Terrible Tommy is always on the spot. Just as baseball fans expected Babe Ruth to hit a home run every time he went to bat and fight fans expect Joe Louis to knock out every opponent in one minute flat, football fans want Harmon to run 95 yards at least once in every game. In Michigan's first game of the season (against California), Harmon ran back the opening kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown, wriggled 72 yards for another, 86 for a third. Against Michigan State and Harvard he was less spectacular...
...days in Manhattan's swank Plaza hotel oiling and firing the starting gun, Utilityman Bauer was on the way back to his unpretentious home in Pasadena (via New Orleans because over-mountain trips sicken his wife). He was happy. Well over 90% of his bonds are sold; underwriters expect to have empty shelves by week's end. Better still, he had once more outmaneuvered the "Big Five," set a new low level for high-grade utility bonds...
...Willkie were President, the document implied Negroes would know what to expect...
...these things are only the probabilities in terms of which some naval men think. Only one thing is certain about any war-to-come: it almost never takes the course which men (including experts) expect...
...spelling, pretty bad in Western Hemisphere geography and U. S. history. On one thing they all agreed: they had to study harder in Britain. Said one of them: "In our country, they give you more than you can do in the way of studies, and then do not expect you to do it all. Here they give you just enough, and expect...