Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this intensity in undergraduate activities seems to be only the function of a larger area of seriousness at Harvard in which the student looks on his college career with much more gravity than did his father. The prospect of these shifting values and patterns of life in undergraduate outlook is one that fills alternate observers with anguish and satisfaction...
...added that he sees no prospect for any immediate relaxation "of international tensions to provide the basis now" for substantial spending reductions...
...credibly, with tenor Malcolm Ticknor and bass Thomas Beveridge singing especially well. A fine all-around performance by David Black as one of the Chaplains stood out especially. With a better libretto, this could really be an exciting new opera, but even for those who don't find the prospect of seeing a good modern work attractive watching, An Incomplete Education may be better than staying home to study "Ictheology...
...important gauge of farm prosperity is the farm-implement business, which Mumped badly in Igs6. Last week it was climbing back as farmers, with more cash m prospect, stepped up their orders International Harvester, which reported 14% higher sales this March than last had brought two Illinois plants back to nearly full employment after 90% layoffs last fall. Deere & Co. President William A. Hewitt told stockholders that they can expect 10%-20% more business. We estimate that farm income will be 3% to 5% higher in 1957." The brighter outlook came from a break m the drought that had dried...
Against that welcome news was the prospect that good weather will help produce one of the greatest feed-grain crops ot all time-a depressing addition to the record 43 million-ton carryover from last year. Nevertheless, the soil-bank program has done better than expected in taking corn land out of cultivation. Farmers have withdrawn a total 5,200,000 acres this spring, cutting expected corn acreage by nearly 10%. While the basic problems of oversupply are still far from solved, even the most pessimistic farm economists believe that the farm cycle has ended its downturn, and stabilized...