Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future. The Prefect of Police has ordered out no extra details of gendarmes to handle the crowds. The hotels have created to tents on their roofs to accommodate the influx of Russian nobles. Society of gay French capital is in no frenzy of excitement "of the prospect of leaving so much royalty in its midst. For here is to such prospect. Denounced by the Dowager Empress and her loyal following "Czar" Cyril frankly admits he does not expect "a very big assembly...
...intelligence. And as intelligence increases, capacity for unhappiness increases. Men who are capable of high efficiency rebel against spending their lives screwing on bolt 13 or hammering nail 127. A thinking man is happy if he is working toward some goal which he can reasonably hope to attain. The prospect which greater efficiency holds out to the intelligent worker is the possibility of becoming a more nearly perfect cog in the system which he already hates. By what strange stretch of the imagination, can one call this making workers happier? Indeed, for the Personnel Research Federation...
...Stone, therefore, holding that the tax information in question is legally open to public inspection, but may not be otherwise published, prepared a suitable suit against a suitable newspaper. The press as a whole was not frightened by the prospect and continued to publish the information discovered at the tax offices...
Under the Old President. Warren Gamaliel Harding was President in that March of 1923, when the 67th Congress was passing and the prospect of the 1924 election was first discussed. He had swung the Limitation of Arma ments Conference to rather more than expected success ? a great achievement whose limitations were not yet perceived. However, the kindhearted, human Harding? cabineted by Secretaries Hughes, Mellon, Hoover, on the one hand; by Fall, Daugherty, Denby, on the other ? had not found all his road smooth. Congress? the Congress with Senator Knute Nelson, Samuel E. Nicholson, La Baron B. Colt, Frank...
...greatest crisis in its history since the Union was saved from disruption half a century ago. " With the deadlock of the last three weeks still prevailing in Congress-the House deadlocked on the election of a President and the Senate still unable to choose a Vice President-the prospect is that the country will be without a regularly elected chief executive when President Coolidge's term expires at noon tomorrow." Coming on top of the business depression and winter of unemployment . . . Government chaos has, wrought a general consternation. . . . "President Coolidge, at this hour, is meeting with members...