Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus warned of war, Gazette readers went on to the next paragraph, which read: "We are assured that Mr. Eustace, at the vineyard . . . has collected thirty bushels of cocoon . . . notwithstanding the loss he sustained by the hail, etc., he has a prospect of making three or four hopheads of wine in the fall...
Uppermost in the minds of spectators at the Women's National Tennis Tournament at Forest Hills, L. I., last week was the question: Who will be the other finalist? Perhaps sure-finalist Helen Wills herself thought she knew when she said, "Sarah Palfrey ... is the best young prospect in the tournament...
Indeed, Boston's 16-year-old Miss Palfrey started off like a good prospect. She quickly disposed of early-round opponents. She easily disposed of England's brilliant Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron. Then she met Mary Greef from Kansas City, with whom she takes turns winning and losing. Last week it was Miss Greef's turn to win and the Palfrey prospects faded. Then Miss Greef had her turn at losing, bowed to California's little Helen Jacobs...
...with the trolley company. A New Orleans ordinance provides that all such conveyances must first post a $5,000 indemnity bond, a requirement which few if any of the taxi operators could or would meet. Last week the City Council prepared to enforce the ordinance, with the almost certain prospect of putting the taxis out of business, of forcing the public back to the empty trolleys, of weakening the effect of the strike...
...cemetery was heavily picketed and guarded, but the strike was quiet. A sympathy strike of some 2,000 New York City cemetery workers loomed as a grim prospect. Fourteen local unions, dock workers, wreckers, barbers, window cleaners, pledged support to the cemetery men. Families who experienced or expected Death hoped for more active, if less grave gravediggers...