Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late August day on one of those Southern New England trains which are in the habit of slowly running from Boston to Woods Hole. The train being in mid-journey and no immediate prospect of things quickly becoming either better or worse, the Vagabond was perhaps justified in assuming his habitual vacant air, which is to say neither better nor worse, glad...
Thus at the beginning of each college year Harvard turns to her incoming Freshmen, just as the Freshmen turn to her. For on their shoulders rests the future. But for the moment the prospect of four bright years ahead seems secure. And so engraved over one of the gates of the Yard is the inscription, "Enter to grow in wisdom...
...time, it was done with fear and trembling, and even Copey, Harvard's beloved Charles Townsend Copeland, looked upon the invasion of the first-year Class as the approach of doom. For of 1,000 lusty throats, as yet unmodulated by the traditions of the College, bellowing "Reinhardt", the prospect was not too pleasant...
...major achievements of the 75th Congress lay clearly under Work Undone, what it had undone most thoroughly was exactly what had made it look so capable of other things when it convened last winter. Prospect when it adjourned last week was for a second session whose major sign of promise is that it will have none of the advantages of the first...
...Zola, in time, come great fame, wealth, position and what he takes for contentment. Some years later, the young radical has become a fat and fussy literary lion. His greatest satisfaction is no longer tilting at literary and political windmills but the prospect of election to the august French Academy. While Cezanne, after dinner one night, is telling Zola that his head is as overstuffed as his stomach, L'Affaire Dreyfus is having its beginnings. The General Staff of the French Army, discovering that someone has been selling military secrets to Germany, looks around for a scapegoat, finds...