Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American automobiles were in bond awaiting the expiration of the 33 ⅓% ad valorem duty imposed in 1915 as a war measure by Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald McKenna. British manufacturers were gloomy at the prospect of having to compete on an equal footing with Americans. Great loss of business was envisaged. The decision to repeal the duties was contained in Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's budget (TIME...
...reply to those who pointed out that seven porters lost their lives in the unsuccessful attempt of 1922 and that Mallory and Irvine lost their lives this year, without the prospect of any material gain for either the climbers or the human race, he answered with a question: "Isn't it a goodish thing to run some risks, undergo some hardships for an ideal divorced from sordid considerations...
...roads were optimistic because of increased freights, not only of grain going east but heavier farmers' purchases going west. In the Atlantic states, business liquidation seemed about completed, although new dark and new bright spots continued to appear in the business outlook. Easy money continued, with small prospect that crop-moving or foreign loans would soon firm up existing low interest rates. Commodity prices, leaving out such obviously exceptional cases as staple grains, seemed to be fully firming up -but whether as a result of the long-predicted "gold inflation" or not cannot yet be determined. Industrially...
...this consignment, although I notice that you do not guarantee delivery. The price you put on them, however ... is entirely too high. You offer me a chance to be the Democratic nominee for the Presidency, which carries with it, in this year of grace, more than a fair prospect of becoming President of the United States. In exchange, I am to abandon forthwith and immediately a law practice which is both pleasant and, within modest bounds, profitable, to throw over honorable clients who offer me honest employment, and to desert a group of professional colleagues who are able, upright...
...muskets and cannon -"cannon to stand still for the Rhode Island defenses and wheeled cannon for the troops of Washington to lug about with them in their everlasting retreats." To be exact, Betty "arrived in America in 1775, along with the Goddess of Freedom, and with as little prospect of success." Her family's savory reputation left her little choice of a career. Her mother was the town scandal, and a boom had scraped her no-account father off his boat into the harbor of Newport and eternity. So Betty trafficked her only wealth-her beauty- wherever a likely...