Word: prospected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enormously stimulating prospect of a Budge v. Perry final, the Men's Singles Championship at Forest Hills last week had very little to add. A leg injury forced Defending Champion Wilmer Allison to withdraw his entry. The rest of the seeded players included Jacques Brugnon and three young Frenchmen performing in the U. S. for the first time to gain experience; that coterie of second-flight U. S. stars, like Sidney Wood, Bryan Grant, Frank Parker and Gregory Mangin, who long ago made it clear that their playing would never justify their potentialities; and the latest schoolboy sensation from...
...each September, one small corner of Long Island becomes, with less ballyhoo than that occasioned by a college football game, the sporting capital of the entire world. This unique occurrence, moreover, happens so regularly that Long Islanders scarcely bothered to raise their eyebrows at all last week at the prospect of a program which in many ways makes the Olympic Games at Berlin look like a sideshow...
...Crystal Sugar Co.) acquired 99% of its common stock. Like all beet sugar companies Amalgamated had a terrible Depression. It piled up a cumulative operating deficit of $3735,000 (since reduced nearlyone-third) which made it impossible under Utah law for it to pay any dividends. American faced the prospect of not getting any return on its investment for perhaps ten years. Therefore last spring it made a trade: it gave its holdings of Amalgamated stock plus $270,000 in cash to Amalgamated in exchange for two of Amalgamated's refineries, one at Missoula, Mont., another at Clarksburg, Calif...
...done with fear and trembling and even Copey, Harvard's beloved Charles Townsend Copeland, looked, up on the invasion of the first-year class as the approach of doom. For with 1,000 lusty throats, as yet unmodulated by the traditions of the College, to bellow "Reinhart" the prospect was not too pleasant...
When Schmeling unexpectedly knocked out Joe Louis last June, the next major fight in prospect was Schmeling v. Braddock. Either because wily little Joe Gould considers Schmeling more likely than Louis to beat his fighter or because, supposing that the feat can be accomplished by either, he would prefer to have it done by Louis who is sure to draw a bigger crowd, Manager Gould has never shown much eagerness to have the Schmeling v. Braddock fight take place...