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Word: prospect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politically, the prospect was brighter. Austria had much less to worry about on this score than Italy (where the Reds had a good chance of winning the national elections in April). In the Austrian Parliament, the Communists held only four out of 165 seats. The Reds controlled neither police, interior ministry, nor trade unions, as they had in Czechoslovakia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Der Optimist's Demise | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...other two stories are also about childhood; they are more complex and less forceful that "The Bond," but they are both written with conviction, if with little prospect of being sold to Glamour Magazine. Norman Zierold's essays, "A Critique of Freud," tries to be witty, but without success. It is a parody of Freud, that shows only ignorance and a distasteful sense of humor. Aune Tolstol's poem, "A Penny for the Blind Man," is the only one in the magazine. It is a poem that seems uncontrived, yet the simplicity is finely formed, and the verses give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Signature: two easy lessons for hack writing | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

...Prospect. In Mexico City, the Herald printed a want ad: "Secretary. Wants position. No bad habits. Willing to learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...just as well known to him as it is to the editor. More often, the reader wants to know where and how the event fits. TIME aims to tell the man who came late to the ball game what the score is, who made the runs, and how the prospect looks. Nobody is on time for all the ball games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Of An Experiment: $ 1.48 and the Woman at the Well | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Professor Loot has already used seismographs to prospect for gold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University's New Seismograph Can Foretell Weather | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

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