Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canvassing in Memorial Hall netted the Council $5571.28, with the prospect of further revenue from a forthcoming "pledge" letter to be sent to all students in the College. Freshman contributions reached $3296, almost $300 more than last year, and upper-class contributions surpassed last year by nearly $700, totaling...
...does not relish the prospect of a third go-round. Bradley's big hope was that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. high command would jettison the Brotherhood, call off the election demand, and take the I.L.A. to its breast. But first he had to convince Meany that his orphaned group measured up to the readmission standards that had been set for it three years ago, e.g., that it had purged itself "of all semblance of crime, dishonesty and racketeering," and had established "democratic ideals...
...Japan, Reischauer found healthy political, economic, and social progress since the end of the last world war. Economically, he noted the growth of factories and technical knowledge and the "modernization" of Japanese industry. He considers unlikely the prospect of any great amount of trade developing between Japan and Communist China...
...Anthony flowed suavely on. "For this country, military action is always the last resort, and we shall go on working for a peaceful solution so long as there is any prospect of achieving one. But the government are not prepared to embark on a policy of abject appeasement . . . The government must be free to take whatever steps are open to them to restore the situation...
...wave of students now sweeping toward its schools and colleges? Absolutely not, says Harvard Historian Oscar Handlin in the Atlantic Monthly-and he presents a gloomy set of statistics to prove his point. The teacher shortage alone has become so acute, says he, that a whole generation faces the prospect of a totally inadequate education...