Word: expectedly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...knew how hard it was even to persuade my husband he needed a new coat, you wouldn't expect me to fetch him here. I wish you had my worries...
...Geneva last week Mr. Gibson must have remembered that painful roasting which the Hoover Administration received when the London Naval Conference failed to achieve the expected reduction of armaments, compromised on mere limitation. Last week Mr. Gibson was thinking back eight months and ahead two years. He knows that in 1932 there will meet under League of Nations auspices the projected World Disarmament Conference, largest and most important since the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-20. Conceivably Ambassador Gibson will lead the U. S. Delegation in 1932. Certainly he may expect to be a delegate. Last week as the League...
...flyer loses confidence, judgment, keenness for flying; he is easily discouraged. Aviators are apt to become irritable and must guard carefully against nervous breakdown, etc. etc. Observed the Navy: "Flying is a strange pursuit for man. . . . After [he] has flown as long as he has walked, he may expect to develop the necessary resistance...
...would be glad to do so myself. Unfortunately, it takes twice as many securities to pay my debts as it did when I incurred them. I could make a very good moral argument, if anyone would listen to me, that my debts should be reduced, but I would not expect to get a hearing unless my creditor was satisfied of my incapacity to pay. If he was, then it would be for the creditor to say, not for me, what he wished to do about it. And as between great nations, I should hope for a breadth of view...
...instantly Forrest's genius for music, told him to find another libretto, a lovestory, and try again. Camille came to his mind because he knew of a similar tragedy which involved two students in a Chicago shorthand school. "But Camille," Mary Garden objected, "is French. You could not expect me to sing it in English." Hamilton Forrest forthwith went to France, learned the language, studied with Composer Maurice Ravel, wrote his opera and had it accepted by the opera company headed by the light & power tycoon whose errands he used...