Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cohen faces the prospect of a court session on Thursday, at the Third District Court, East Cambridge, for his offence in distributing circulars last Friday...
...Socialist Club has hired a staff of attorneys and will brave the terrors of the law by distributing the pamphlet to all comers in Harvard Square. A night in jail is a pleasant prospect for the Socialists, and they promise, it is rumored, to place the candidates for office in the same position by violating an ancient edict forbidding the placarding of telegraph posts. With the local elections due shortly, practically all the candidates for jobs have had their pictures pasted on the posts. Where the rivalry between law and order and politicians on the one hand and the Harvard...
...this year and his expenses are mounting towards $15,000,000. He wants not only to get within his appropriations but to get below it. Dismaying was this call to the carriers who have been hoping to get all first class mail. However, Mr. Brown did not block that prospect specifically. Indeed his second assistant, Warren Irving Glover, volunteered that air mail routes would be extended...
...mixed and muddled as completely as possible by Parliament. The one clean-cut way out would be a sweeping victory for the chief Opposition party (Labor), but few observers believed that possible, last week, because recent state elections have heavily favored the Nationalists. Gloomily, Australians faced the post-election prospect of another Nationalist Government stalemated by the feud between Hughes and Bruce...
...Colony. In New Haven's Prospect Street, behind a high wall and adjoining the gardens of the learned community's Victorian moguls, is a monkey house. No uncouth student ever annoys the beasts for they are the wards of Robert Mearns Yerkes. He, who made a Harvard reputation studying the behavior of the dancing mouse,* has for the past five years been discreetly studying anthropoid intelligence for God, for country and for Yale. No simple task has that been, especially since apes do not behave normally in captivity. To study them as best he could he once spent three weeks...