Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shot-put event with an old football injury, the Crimson will depend on H. T. Dunker '24 and Earl Evans '24 to wrest honors from the other strong entries. They will meet the greatest opposition in Ralph Hills, Princeton football guard, and Olympic shot-put prospect, and Orville Wanzer, powerful policeman from the New York...
...said: "I am overwhelmed by the great honor conferred on me by the British Government in nominating me for such an important post, and also by the responsibility of the task of representing the British Empire in the United States. At the same time I am delighted at the prospect of renewing the acquaintance of many friends made in Washington during my service as> Counselor of Embassy under James Bryce, while I shall be glad to meet again the numerous people I had the pleasure of knowing during various trips to different cities...
...list of prospective 'delegates to the Democratic Convention is about as long as that of Mr. Coolidge for the Republican Convention?but his prospect of an early nomination is much less because a two-thirds vote (730 votes) is required to nominate by the Democrats...
Politics, business, the Army sat up and took notice. Opponents of the Administration rubbed their hands at the prospect of an investigation. Secretary Weeks was perhaps a bit annoyed. The President and the Secretary both let it be known that they had heard of young Wood's speculations, had informed General Wood of the fact, and that the speculations had been stopped. They also affirmed that they regarded such heavy speculation by Army officers as very bad policy. Henry B. Thompson, father-in-law of Lieutenant Wood, hurried down to Washington on an unknown errand...
...Waverly is quite fortunate and gets a nomination, as also does Concord Depot. Dinwiddie gets a Postmaster; I know not why; Meadows of Dan also gets a Postmaster, and so do Prospect, Beaver Dam, Shipman, Bridgewater, Disputanta, Fincastle, Hilton Village, and last but not least is Saltville...