Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mills, despite temporary setbacks, continues to increase; and the whole steel industry is now approaching a more respectable hailing distance of its capacity. This fall, the lettings for structural steel have run about 73% of capacity. The sheet steel is running at about 80% of capacity. With the prospect of renewed railroad buying next year, as well as other important sources of demand, Pittsburgh is more sanguine now than at any time since the first quarter...
...those romantics who seek the bizarre in politics, Albania offers an illimitable source of novelties. Its tangled threads of political, religious and economic-puzzles give little prospect of solution...
With the announcement of the plans of the 1926 Senior Dormitory Committee, juniors will begin to give serious thought to their rooming problem for next year. The prospect of obtaining rooms in remodeled Massachusetts or the new Holden dormitories will doubtless tempt a wholesome rivalry for these vantage points, but may also make the older Yard dormitories appear less desirable. The supercomforts of the Freshman halls, added to the freedom of living for two years where one pleased, may have produced fastidious tastes. The gradual approach to senior's state may have worn away the thrill which, three years earlier...
...prospect of a "modest inaugural" began to take form. The inaugural ball Mr. Coolidge had already vetoed. Last week a curtailed parade was agreed upon. It is probable that if the President had consulted his own wishes alone, there would have been no parade. But Washington merchants, who find great profit in the inauguration ceremonies, pressed very earnestly for more display. A compromise resulted...
...delightful as the prospect is, especially those who condemn, rightfully or not, the semi-professional methods of collegiate athletics, it cannot become a real condition unless the grandstands drop a little of their Nordic earnestness, and exchange a little of their burning fervor for the more suave encounters of Latin contestants. So long as the spectators fill football with the same excitement with which the Pilgrims fought the devil, so long as they feel that it is a dishonor to lose and a matter of conscience to win, the same rigid regime of fasting and praying will train the povitiates...