Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are also two photostats of prints in a book on Oxford with engravings done by James Loggan in the late seventeenth century. The original may be found in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. They are entitled "Prospect of Oxford from the East near London Road" and "Prospect of Oxford from the South near Abbington Road...
Though such incidents certify that a Dry World is by no means yet in prospect, prohibitionists greeted with enthusiasm the news that the U. S. Congress plans to appropriate some $37,000,000 to continue enforcement of prohibition...
...Experience has shown that continuance of the present regime until 1935, the year fixed by the Treaty of Versailles for holding a plebiscite to determine the final nationality of our Saar, is an intolerable prospect! Our only wish is to be reunited with Germany, unconditionally and without restriction...
...says, might he not some day be persuaded to let public office seek him? Might he not, perhaps, be persuaded to enter Congress? This could easily be effected through a resignation from one friend (Senator Wagner) and an appointment from another (Governor Roosevelt). If by some pressure or prospect this should ever come to pass, a Senator "Al" Smith of New York would without doubt furnish scenes and situations-and perhaps some legislation-remarkable in his own day, memorable for political prosperity. ¶ S. Rurok, Manhattan impresario, offered the President-Reject $50,000 for ten debates on Prohibition against famed...
...House. Aside from the prospect that the Republican majority manipulated by Wet Speaker Nicholas Longworth and Leader John Q. Tilson will be bigger than ever, it was noted that the House of Representatives in the next Congress will include a Negro, Oscar De Priest of Chicago. Also, it will contain seven women, four who were re-elected and three Ruths (see p. 11). It will also have a newspaperman, Louis Ludlow, of Indianapolis, onetime Washington correspondent, but there will be no Socialist since Wisconsin's Berger was defeated...