Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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China suffers from the opium trade more than all other nations together, and she had everything to gain from the success of the conference. Her withdrawal was made only after desperate protest and when there was no prospect of establishing any understanding that would not legalize the drug trade for some years to come. European nations, she discovered, found the business too profitable to be abandoned. They pleaded the impossibility of preventing the trade, but, when faced with Japan's successful prohibition in Formosa, were forced to admit two significant facts: the traffic yields large tariff revenues in the colonies...
...questioned by an older member who aimed to confuse him, answered the questions and then drawled: "Now, having embalmed that fly in the liquid amber of my remarks, I will proceed. . . .'' Mr. Longworth's talents are less showy and breed fewer enemies. So there is small prospect of his becoming another Czar. Why, then, did he want the post? The answer lies in the history of his career. He suffered long from being known as the son-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt. Indeed, the only defeat he suffered in his 18 years of service was that...
...prospect is that the Legislature will pass a joint resolution proposing to the people an amendment to the State Constitution whereby James E. Ferguson should have the privilege of holding office once more...
Nonetheless, the House passed the bill, 243 to 116. The Senate is supposed to favor the bill, the President is known to sponsor it, so the prospect is that it will become...
Then, with the suddenness of breakfast, folk discovered last week, that the great Baptist billionaire would contribute $500,000?a sum more than twice as great as that given by any other individual.* The prospect changed. The Cathedral fund jumped to nearly half, the requisite. It might be built in the Bishop's life time...