Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asking jocularly "Wonder when the Crime will start printing on yellow paper?" but when night came with all the terrors of darkness, these same ones, anxiously tested the strength of their rope fire-escapes. And this is not strange, considering the scare headlines in yesterday's CRIMSON, for the prospect of being thrown from a curtained taxi-cab into the Waldrof after being treated with tar and feathers is far from pleasant...
...Then, having destroyed the peace and prosperity of the Rhinelanders," he said, "the French have dangled before the un- happy people the prospect that an independent Republic of Rhineland would end their miseries,--that it would free them from the French Military Occupation and give them once more 'peace, work and bread...
...charged with revolutionary utterances. The arrested leaders were released, however, and President Zayas promised that if the three men in hiding returned to Havana, they would be unmolested. If a revolution should develop, Secretary Hughes will find his attention again forcibly attracted to Cuba. For the moment, however, that prospect seems unlikely...
...Shipping Board is looking for a new plan. Meanwhile it has advised President Coolidge that there is no prospect of managing the Government's fleet so as to avoid a deficit. Various factors in the cost of operating ships under American registry add a cost of $5 a ton over that on foreign ships. Therefore the best that the Board can hope to do, is to reduce an inescapable deficit...
...interested parties" or defendants, and a thirteenth was added to the group when the navigating officer of the destroyer Delphy was questioned. In this way the commanding officers, division commanders and squadron commanders of the vessels wrecked were all named as defendants, and exempted from testifying. There was a prospect that if other officers were questioned they, too, might be named. In this way the almost ludicrous situation came about, in which all the important witnesses were named as " interested parties" and exempted from testifying...