Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little better prepared to investigate and establish the facts accurately than they were in the time of Jeanne d'Arc. If Pierrette is really comparable to Bernadette, then science has an opportunity compared to which a total eclipse of the sun is commonplace - or else religion has the prospect of another Lourdes...
...told his interrogators that in 1938 the Wehrmacht had only 21 divisions, including two Panzer divisions. The Czechs had 45 well-trained divisions behind a fortified belt newer and better than the Maginot Line. Said Halder, he and his colleagues concluded that if war came, the German prospect was "nothing less than catastrophic...
...which instantly explodes. The possibility that the secret might be discovered by some other nation creates no immediate dangers, because at this stage of the bomb's development huge production plants (which exist in the U.S. alone) are necessary. But over the next ten or 15 years the prospect was one in which even the bomb's first victims found a bitter grain of comfort...
...create peacetime jobs, to solve the Dominion's housing shortage. There would be legislation authorizing Canada's participation in international monetary agreements. A Veterans' Charter, something like the U.S.'s "G.I. Bill of Rights," would be created. But to Canadians the most interesting legislation in prospect involved the creation of a Canadian nationality and adoption of a Canadian flag...
...Washington trooped the innumerable advisory committees of the industry. They protested that even the mere prospect of more fabric now would mean chaos for the manufacturers, and even worse for retailers who would be stuck with millions of dollars worth of war goods. Said they: if customers thought basic style changes were in the offing or that quality would soon improve they might wait until winter, or longer if necessary...