Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from tuition and fees will be about $3,700,000. Next year, with an estimated enrollment in these schools of 6250, a drop of about $200,000 at present rates would occur; and in 1950-51, when the College is down to 4300, a further cutback would be in prospect. In addition, nationwide inflation and continuing commitments for permanent Faculty salaries and other educational projects have increased the financial pressure...
...only a day after Chrysler upped the prices on its 1949 models by 6.66%. In his annual report last week Chrysler President K. T. Keller explained: "Higher prices at this time are inevitable. No significant drop in labor costs or prices of materials is as yet even in prospect and much less in evidence...
...many of Marquand's readers, Point of No Return will seem a little more troubling and pessimistic than most of his works. But Marquand thinks that man is slowly growing up and that man's hope lies in a prospect of greater maturity. "Most people," he said, "never grow up. The thing we've got to do in our institutions is try to build up more maturity. Mature people are happier. At least they can rationalize the world in such a way that they are not going to beat their heads against a wall. I certainly think...
...dialogue and the situations is what tells, and it is forced, hoary, and sometimes private. It seems to depend sololy on the type of wit referred to in the first sentence: the humor of the iconoclast. Now, there's no one who enjoys more than I the prospect of Orphan Annie getting her due, which, in this instance, comes in being taken advantage of by some drunken Yaleman (and later handed over, a hopeless reprobate, to the making of Li'l Abner), but the initial joy of such humor is soon dissipated, and by the time the reader wades through...
Mikan himself had thought of studying for the priesthood, but dropped the idea about the time he graduated from Chicago's Quigley Preparatory Seminary. The late Coach George Keogan of Notre Dame looked him over as a basketball prospect, but decided that he was too awkward. He decided on a pre-law course at Chicago's De Paul University. There, Coach Ray Meyer made him shadow-box and skip rope until Mikan panted: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Short, husky Coach Meyer is still hard to satisfy. Says he of Mikan: "He'd be great...