Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulses had spurted noticeably faster with each unbending Soviet demand at the Paris Conference. Voters who perhaps were not coming to love Britain more liked less the prospect of possible Russian autarchy in Europe. When Speaker Sam Rayburn left the rostrum to make his own personal plea for the loan, he spoke the thought which finally brought around many election-conscious Congressmen...
...perhaps unfortunate that any such meeting has to be called. The members of the Committee, however, felt that the danger of inflation to the average student was so great, and the prospect of the permanent elimination of effective price control was so imminent that a public demonstration of the sentiments of the student body was necessary. Mr. Duhig refused to make an exception to what he insisted was University policy because of the absence of the members of the committee which determines such policy. To our minds that is not an adequate excuse for the conduct of a great educational...
...Mikolajczyk, undeterred by the dim prospect for an honest polling of the people's will, stuck to his guns. Said he: "If the referendum is honest we will have a definite no majority." But in any case, he added, the "people will know who really won, and so will the Government...
Mexico was full of fiesta for Sunday's presidential election. Never before had the Federal Government registered voters for an election, never before had so many planned to vote. Never had the prospect of an honest election been so real...
...High Is Price? The sudden prospect of an end to all price ceilings was almost as staggering to businessmen as to consumers. How high could prices...