Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to be the Virgin Mary in the Shanghai American school's Christmas pageant. Still, for all the mellow effort we foreigners in China will make to honor the tinsel and holly tradition within our warm little family groups, I think no Christmas ever seemed to hold less prospect of cheer or promise. It isn't a reporter's Christmas in China this year...
...newsmen were not exactly intrigued by the prospect of another statement on inflation. They had already read too many. All week long, Democrats and Republicans had exchanged a futile barrage of charges and countercharges. Republicans accused the President of attempting to set up full wartime powers to use at his own discretion. The G.O.P., snapped West Virginia's New Dealing Senator Harley Kilgore, was "rushing to a three-alarm fire with a garden hose...
McGill boasts, among others, of Jack Gelineau, 22-year old goal tender from Mount Royal, Quebee, who is rated as tops in Canadian circles and who is a definite prospect for the Boston Bruins. The rest of the Canadian University's squad-biography list reads like a pro and semi-pro roster, with such descriptions as "spent three years with the Boston Olympics" and "played also for the Verdun Maple Leafs" scattered throughout...
Confirming the fact the the United States can readily supply the food, clothing, machine tools, seeds, and breeding stock with "just enough sacrifice to make us feel good," Mather nevertheless warned that limited supplies of petroleum and high-grade iron ores severely limits the prospect of aid in this line...
...woman a day for fifty years! That is the appetizing prospect of a new plan now circulating throughout the College by letter...