Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inserting an "or" for an and it appeared to relieve second offenders ot the certain prospect of receiving both a fine and imprisonment...
President Washington picked the site "upon a rising ground, affording a fine water prospect, with a view of the Capitol." James Hoban, an Irish architect residing in Charleston, S. C., won a $500 prize competition for the plans by copying the ducal home of Leinster near Dublin. Much of his design was lopped away for economy's sake. President Washington laid the cornerstone without ceremony...
Into the eastern railroad situation of the U. S. were injected two large new merger plans last week, carrying promise of consolidation and settlement, carrying also prospect of confusion and conflict...
Casey Prominent Prospect...
Strange indeed have been the noises issuing from the Copland-Sessions Concerts in Manhattan since last spring, when Composers Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions inaugurated them as a clearinghouse for untried music of their contemporaries. Formidably foolish, almost awesome, appeared the prospect of a Copland-Sessions concert next week, with music by Virgil Thomson, text by Gertrude Stein...