Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knee at City Hall while the lad was publicly immunized against diphtheria to the boom of flashlights, prepared to attend the Kentucky Derby. Also, he pondered this question: Should he take an eagerly-offered renomination from Tammany in the primary next September, and be faced with the certain prospect of four years more in New York's antique City Hall or should he, at the peak of his political success, step grandly out of Job No. 3 and cash in on what he calls his "commercial value...
...plan as at present proposed, the problem of the assignment of the Sophomores to the several houses is going to present many serious difficulties. The authorities indulge in glittering generalities, and profess to feel sanguine of its solution, but underneath the surface they must be really worried over the prospect of an annual chorus of complaint from the host of Sophomores whose first choice of a house must be turned down. That whole difficulty would disappear at once if it is the Freshmen, not the Sophomores, who are being assigned to the Houses. Freshmen, till they have matriculated, have...
...thus offer unique opportunity for students to start in the operatic field. Imagine the feelings of college baseball players if their coach should arrange to put a Ruth, Cobb or Hornsby into the line-up with them. Just so must feel the singing students of Curtis Institute at the prospect...
Insulted by this prospect were taxi-minded Manhattanites. Insulted and injured were Manhattan taxi men. For, said they, the new tax was unfairly proportioned. True, last month's passage of the New York state gasoline tax (2? per gallon, effective May 1) completed the role of 48 U. S. gas-taxing states. But the private car uses about 550 gallons of gasoline a year. The taxi uses about 7,565 gallons. Inasmuch as the New York law makes no distinction between gas taxes for taxicabs and for private cars, the taxi men, with 3% of New York City automobiles...
While Conciliator Charles G. Wood of the U. S. Department of Labor was preparing to leave Elizabethton because of the dark prospect for a strike settlement, Governor Henry Hollis Horton of Tennessee appointed Major George L. Berry, popular president of the International Pressmen's Union, as a state representative to bring about peace. Both sides cheered...