Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made. The goods that are offered must be offered at a fair price, and by a fair price I mean one that is not inconsistent with the value which they can give. They must represent also a utility as it seems to be much more difficult to approach a prospect and talk value without being able to demonstrate utility in a high degree...
...Prospect. If the House impeaches Judge English, Congress will probably be detained from three to six weeks after its other business is completed. Perhaps Congress may adjourn as expected in May and the President may call a special session of the Senate to try the case. In any event it would keep numbers of Senators in Washington when they would ardently wish to go home to mend their fences before elections next fall. Incidentally it would afford columnists endless material for jokes about "Vienna bred" and "English as he is impeached...
While Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Navy crews have all been working out regularly in open water during the past week, Harvard's oarsmen are still hard at work in the tank and on the machines with no immediate prospect of getting out on the Charles. The ice in the vicinity of Newton boathouse is still several inches thick, and it is a conservative estimate that the Crimson will not be on the river for another week...
...truth of the matter is that, with next fall's election in the offing, a flood of investigations seems to be in prospect, but how much the Republican action can hold back the flood is dubious. Even if a committee reports adversely on a proposed investigation, the Senate is likely to order the investigation if it continues in its present temper...
...prospect of immediate settlement it rested on two frail hopes, action by the Pennsylvania Government and action by the Federal Government. In Pennsylvania, Governor Pinchot is faced by a legislature which is in good part hostile to him, depriving him of most power except that of persuasion. In Washington, the President has no power but that of persuasion, which he declines to exercise, for most observers are aware that at present persuasion would be futile. In Congress, Democrats made numerous attempts to force the President to act, thinking no doubt that any attempt to do so would bring the wrath...