Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Trade Union Council of a "strike fund" check for 250,000 gold rubles ($125,000) despatched to it by the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions. At Amsterdam, however, the Netherlands Trade Union Congress voted 60,000 gulden ($24,250) for the same purpose, with every prospect of its being most gratefully accepted, and in France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Japan, Mexico, labor organizations manifested their sympathy for the British strikers by commendatory votes, scattered strikes, monetary contributions, or by taking steps to hamper essential exports to Britain. Unquestionably there was a faint manifestation of the much touted "world...
...introduced, enslaved and freed the black, before his encounter with the cast, an encounter which is now rather more of a rising than receding menace. In dealing with it, the pacific idealism diffused among the Caucasions and not foreign to the awakening Asiatic offers a prospect less fraught with catastrophe than were the contacts with the Indian and the negro. But it is a prospect that inevitably involves wounded pride...
...able to paralyze the circulatory system of an industrialized country to function. With the funds now at the disposal of the unions, this strength may be maintained for a month, and if no settlement be reached at the end of that time, the workers will have only a bleak prospect to look forward...
...practically nobody wanted to hold the Philippines except as a grandiose assumption of ? "the white man's burden." Now, wise business interests see in the Philippines great prospect of national wealth. Rubber perhaps will grow there. Not only so, but 50 or 100 years hence the U. S. may need to import food, and food can be abundantly produced in the Philippines. Vast hills of minerals are also reputed to be lying there untouched. In short, the Philippine question is no longer purely academic...
With four letter men, J. D. Leekley '27, Kenneth Dorn '27, W. Van A. Coombs '27, and J. N. Barbee '28 returning next year and an especially strong Freshman team to draw from, the prospect of a successful season next year is considered particularly good...