Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, the players were steamed up by the prospect of the retaliation they would meet on the football field, while the laymen, though partly affected by this defensive fear, were not so likely to be involved in physical contact...
...season. The way he reasons this is that at most other colleges, football players receive a kind of prestige which stimulates them to act aggressively after as well as during the season. They therefore will create aggressive situations in which they can play their role. These situations, and the prospect of them, will keep their aggressiveness rating higher...
Tired Thumb. In Central Falls, R.I., a young woman explained why she had turned in a false alarm: she was on a country road, with no prospect of getting a lift home, figured the fire department would give her a ride...
...personal bed-making prospect would only become a reality if the College followed the Tech plan completely, but details have yet to be considered. Yet a loss of gracious sleeping appears well out-weighed by arguments in favor of the student porter...
Loss of the 9 a.m. cheeriness and relatively conscientious work of the maids is an unhappy prospect. But keeping the money in the family can make it worth the experiment...