Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House. Insurgent tactics in the House are similar to those in the Senate. But there is a prospect of more delay in organization. Frederick Huntington Gillett, Speaker of the House during the last two Congresses, is the gentleman at whose expense the game may be played. For the last 30 years, continuously, he has represented the Second District of Massachusetts in Congress, a thoroughly seasoned parliamentarian, valuable to the regular Republicans and not very objectionable to other groups. The Democrats will nominate to run against him, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic floor leader in the last House...
...interest. But now with an excellent coach and one of the finest riding floors in the country, it is already giving indications that by next spring it will gain the prestige of an organized sport. Nothing, of course, succeeds like success, but it may be hoped the enlarged prospect of success which has opened up will bring to polo at Harvard all the trappings of an organized sport...
...said, however, or at least it is so charged, that many members of a faculty ask their university press to publish their researches,--the books whose sale is necessarily limited,--and seek one of the large general publishing houses when they produce something which seems to enjoy the prospect of making a little money...
...prospect for an Allied conference on reparations with U. S. participation was extirpated from the marsh of international politics...
...have neither the right nor the desire to interfere in the purely internal political affairs of any country, but we cannot refrain from expressing deep satisfaction at the prospect of seeing a devoted friend of labor, justice, freedom and democracy elected President of one of the great Republics of the Western hemisphere...