Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outlook after the Senatorial election of 1924, the prospect is even more dubious for the Republicans. Fifteen Democratic seats in the Senate and 17 Republicans seats will be refilled next year...
...Scotland for the Walker Cup told of but one American victory out of four matches. The necessity of winning at least five and a half of the remaining eight matches in order to keep the 'scutcheon clear and bring the cup once more to America formed a dismal prospect. Yet no more dismal than the prospects of Ouimet, when he faced his last five holes through the rain in the famous championship at Brookline years ago. He did then what was considered the impossible, and yesterday he and his team-mates repeated the process...
...wish we had a prospect of witnessing a meeting between that estimable lady and the Prosperous Gentleman on Plympton Street, for we feel sure that their reminiscences over a dish of tea or even an empty punch bowl would be fascinating history. There would be many things to recall of the old days in which there were of course, giants: ambrosial make-up meetings whence numbers issued more or less by mistake; the horrors of proof reading at dawn; the bitterness of controversy and mutual criticism; the tense excitement each has experienced in the turmoil of competition with more than...
...combination is not definite, but will form the basis upon which Coach Muller expects to work during the next few days. If it proves satisfactory, there is every prospect that this line-up will be the one to face Cornell...
...American Museum of Natural History is the most fertile source of this sort of research and sends out annually a large number of expeditions. Its third Asiatic expedition has just left Peking under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, the well-known naturalist and explorer. It will prospect for six months the treasures of the Gobi Desert and Inner Mongolia, known to be rich in fossil flora and fauna, including mastodons and mammoths, which are believed to have wandered eastward from their source in central Asia. Popular expectations with regard to the " missing link " of human evolution and the site...