Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
...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...