Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varia, or if one wishes to be sub-specific, Strix varia varia. Scotiaptex nobulosa is the handle of the great grey owl, a much larger and rarer creature in these parts and a bird which would hardly be likely to be lured into the big city even by the prospect of a Harvard-educated prey. We realize that this nomenclatural lapse is not a matter of any great concern, except to us, but in the interest of distinguishing between ornithological prodigy and editorial error, we respectfully submit this correction...
There was little immediate prospect of that. The House's Martin-Halleck-Taber leadership was too firmly entrenched. Liberal G.O.P. Senators would find it hard to agree upon an alternate to Ohio's Bob Taft, himself far more liberal than the House's ruling clique...
...admen's plaints were echoed by many a telecaster. Of the 42 television stations now operating in 22 cities, not one has yet shown a profit, and many of them could not even see a clear prospect of profit. Small stations were losing between $10,000 and $25,000 a month, and even the big networks found it a heavy drain...
...mighty quiet in Stillman Infirmary's third floor ward Wednesday night, and a sunless Thankskiving was in prospect. "Old Faithful," the community radio, didn't work and there was neither music nor news...
...game but shattered Harvard team, which had lost to Princeton 36 to 0 and rebounded to edge Brown 3 to 0, was faced with the doleful prospect of a fast, successful Yale attack. Odds before the game made the Elis a 10-3 favorite...