Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the U. S. stands in no immediate prospect of a Moscow station powerful enough to "jam" stations across the Atlantic, European statesmen were distinctly vexed, last week at the probability that millions of Godfearing, Capital-revering Europeans will soon be listening to such siren-tongued orators as the Soviet régime can muster...
...this new glorification of the melting pot, all the trouble starts when Mr. Van Dorn, blueblood, announces a prejudice against the prospect of an Italian daughter-in-law and a Jewish son-in-law. "We gotta get outta this neighborhood!" shouts the agitated aristocrat again and again. He thinks that, by moving, the love of democratic young Americans can be thwarted. Mrs. Van Dorn disapproves of her husband's arbitrary ways. Through her, Playwright William Perlman brings out the salient point that Mr. Van Dorn is not justified in assuming Castilian airs, because, even if the Van Dorns...
...roads upon their present (and higher) replacement costs. Meanwhile the railroads pay according to the Government formula, but under protest. The Fund, augmented in ten months last year by $732,448.34 (from 33 lines) now approximates $6,000,000, but may not be dispersed because there is no prospect of the valuation quarrel being settled...
...similar project was begun some years ago at Yale University- to reproduce "Chronicles of America" in films which were to be leased to boards of education and private schools, and sent free to ru- ral districts. This venture was found financially impracticable. The present prospect of many school children learning geography and science from "shots" of Patagonian flocks and herds, Chinese temples, the home life of the Paramecium, or of "Making Rubber in Ohio," seems excellent. The Eastman Kodak Co. is one of the largest corporations in the U. S. The National Education Association has some 161,000 members...
There is a National Student Federation, working in conjunction with a travel bureau called the Open Road Inc., which has arranged scores of tours for ardent crusaders, to whom the prospect of meeting European state officials and enjoying state banquets, lectures, or simply recognition and welcome, is irresistible. It is arranged that there shall be bountiful good fellowship between the crusaders and university students in the lands they visit. "In the walled garden of an old stone house in Normandy" many of the most faithful will gather in August to fraternize intensively and bleach all the sins of their respective...