Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steel mills were producing at a scheduled 74.8% of capacity, a new high for the year and more than half a point above the previous week. Prospect for the fourth quarter: 85% of capacity...
...this period, said President Robert W. Wilkins of Boston at the commemorative meetings in San Francisco, surgery on the heart itself has leaped from a hesitant, tentative approach to one of great confidence: there is now nobody with acquired or congenital heart disease who cannot be considered as a prospect for surgery, and many cases can be helped. Equally important has been the successful attack on rheumatic fever, achieved mainly with penicillin. Ranking next, Dr. Wilkins listed ground gains against high blood pressure, now controlled with drugs in most patients, so that surgery is practically disappearing...
...chemistry, physics, etc.), by week's end had registered 241 seniors and 498 juniors and sophomores. Only trouble: there were just barely enough teachers and classrooms to start instruction for the seniors (juniors were promised classes this week in two hurriedly purchased warehouses, but there is no immediate prospect of school for sophomores). Teachers recruited by Brashears are as varied as a Foreign Legion battalion, range from competent to questionable. School financing is by private donations. Last week Attorney General Bruce Bennett promised that each student forced to transfer to an accredited public or private school could draw perhaps...
Just six months earlier, he had discussed with his wife whether or not he should apply for one of the several excellent coaching jobs which were then available. They decided to stay in Gettysburg. Yovicsin did not like the insecure prospect of coach at a school where a coach had to win consistently or lose his job. He preferred to stay where...
...Poorest Boom." The new need is electricity to power the province's growth. Since 1946, British Columbia Electric Co. has quadrupled its sales of electricity; but even so, the populous lower mainland and Vancouver Island face the prospect of power shortages by 1962, unless some new developments are opened. One mighty project calls for tapping the swift-running Eraser River, which alone could provide enough power to meet British Columbia's needs for years to come. A second idea is to develop the Columbia River, dammed at nine points in the U.S. and nowhere in Canada. The idea...