Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine spirits. For the rest of his tumultuous life (before his death in 1788 he came to an uneasy rest halfway between Anglicanism, which he never renounced, and his brother's Methodism) Charles Wesley remembered the warm reception of his preaching in Boston. He praised the "prospect entirely new and beautiful" of the New England port, spoke highly of the congeniality and "the civility of the fellows" at Harvard College...
...With the prospect of having drastic social changes forced upon them by the faculty unless a solution were found, student leaders met early this week to formulate changes which would meet with the approval of the Committee on Student Activities and at the same time not curtail too seriously the traditions associated with the Spring and Fall weekends...
...Only the prospect of Governor Orval E. Faubus' calling a special session of the state legislature appeared as a dark cloud on the horizon. Faubus said today that the session is "very likely," and he has called a news conference at 9 a.m. tomorrow which may end speculation as to whether the assembly will meet and what it will attempt...
...third of the Bundestag's 497 seats, or enough to block any constitutional changes. Of all the other parties, only Reinhold Maier's right-of-center Free Democrats, who won 41 seats, got more than the minimum 5% necessary to be represented in the Bundestag. Thus the prospect is that West Germany is well on the way to a reasonably well balanced two-party government, free from the fragmentation that did so much to destroy the Weimar Republic of the '20s. Christian Democrats were particularly heartened by the fact that they had scored sizable gains in traditionally...
Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any immediate prospect of centralized control, for the various deans and departments heads are jealous of their permit rights...