Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visiting Princeton as the guest of an upperclassman is bound to be favorably impressed with the social set-up. The eating clubs that line Prospect Street are an impressive tribute to good fellowship. Inside, groups of a hundred or less men take their meals and their leisure in the gracious atmosphere of leather easy chairs and tasteful decorations. Here they entertain dates, shoot pool and bull, hold weekend dances and special parties. In short, excepting the fact that they do not live there, clubs are the social centers for juniors and seniors at Princeton...
...almost three-fourths of its power needs. Last year, when water was low and less power was generated, P.G.E. had to buy costlier steam-generated power (eight mills per kw., v. two mills for Bonneville power), and the state permitted a 20% increase in electric bills. With the prospect of more public power for private companies, these householders' rates should come down...
Thousands of its long-established citizens as well as thousands of startled newcomers from the outlands recoil each year at the prospect of sending their own flesh & blood to the public schools. In some strata of the city's big professional, business and intellectual communities, a man not only loses face, but is likely to be considered downright heartless if he democratically consigns his offspring to a public school. Brigades of men & women who love the city for its theaters, shops and bridge-laced distances move to the suburbs each year because their young have reached school age. More...
...President has said that we must avoid a panic in this country over the prospect of hydrogen warfare, and he is right. But here again there is a large gap between knowledge and panic; Americans have in the past absorbed defense education without falling into blinding fear. The administration has perhaps dwelt too long on the fable of the boy who cried wolf without reason and needlessly alarmed his neighbors. It would be well to consider also the boy who saw the wolf but neglected to cry out; he was devoured quickly and silently...
...chunk of troubles. But last week Slotkin was sure that, by such economies as combining the two firms' sales forces, he would soon have Kingan on a paying basis. Eventually, he estimates, the merger should mean a $500 million annual gross for Hygrade. Exuberant over this gratifying prospect, and incidentally to persuade Kingan minority stockholders to exchange their shares, Slotkin last week declared a 100% stock dividend for his Hygrade stockholders...