Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...side of the Great Lakes, last week, unwilling citizens of a Prohibition regime looked towards the promised land of Canada, saw it more promising still. Fat U. S. bootleggers chuckled over the prospect of a new source of whiskeys and fine wines; Wet U. S. Congressmen watched with interest. In the legislature of the Province of Ontario before crowded and expectant galleries, Premier Ferguson introduced his bill to do away with the present liquor laws* and substitute others based on the limited franchise laws of Ontario's sister province, Quebec. He faced an enthusiastic dripping Wet majority triumphantly elected last...
...latest step forward is the recent establishment of the pre-examination "reading periods," of two or three weeks, during which formal lectures and tutoring will be suspended. Both students and instructors will be required to remain in residence and it is expected that an assignment in reading and the prospect of the examinations in the immediate future will be sufficient stimulus to keep the undergraduates working. The various departments of the University are to decide for themselves whether the suggestion will be put into effect and the provision is also made that the recess will not apply to freshman courses...
...goodly array spread before him to tackle first. So it is with the Vagabond this Wednesday morning. Wandering at will in the vast intellectual cafeteria that is Harvard, he finds that the day's fare is so plentiful and so temptingly varied, that he is quite appalled at the prospect of choosing the lectures to serve as his daily morsels of mental delecation. In such sore doubt himself, it is with trepidation that he undertakes the perilous task of scanning the menu for the entertainment of his parishioners...
When I was admitted?then 30 minutes late?I said to the prospect "Sorry, Mr. Blank, that I am 30 minutes late, and here is the reason...
...eminent psychologist, Dr. William McDougall. Dr. McDougall said he had been happy at Harvard but could not resist Duke's offer. Many another famed professor is happy where he is, but boards of trustees are watching nervously to see who next will be unable to resist the prospect of Ducal paradise...