Word: prospected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal, will come a redoubled effort on the part of New England businessmen to block the St. Lawrence Seaway. If the ore from Labrador could travel down the St. Lawrence to the Great Lake ports, the geographical advantage of a New England steel mill would be materially diminished. The prospect of an important industry in New England threatened by the Seaway may well be the reason why New England senators fight the St. Lawrence project...
Merry Chase. The prospect of peace in steel let the U.S. Government turn its attention on John L. Lewis, whose seven-week-old soft-coal strike had passed the pinching stage and was really hurting. In Washington last week for a clandestine meeting with Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, John L. was in a sullen but athletic mood. For 45 minutes he led newsmen on a comic-opera chase through midtown Washington, waddling through side doors and around corners like an amateur Sydney Greenstreet, climbing in & out of taxicabs, bouncing up & down in elevators...
Unfortunately, most of the would-be guinea pigs had read into Krieg's cautiously worded study a promise that was not there-i.e., the prospect of an immediate cure for their specific afflictions. What the carefully qualified report did suggest was the exciting possibility that experiments in the direct application of electrical stimuli to the brain or peripheral nerves may one day enable some of the blind to see, the deaf to hear and the lame to walk again-after a fashion, anyway...
...backstroke, Ulen has Tom Woods and John Steinbardt from the 1948 team, with sophomores Hugh Hartwell, Joe Baublis, and Ron Dorris ready to step in. The coach named Larry Ward as an outstanding breaststroke prospect...
Actually the prospect was not so gloomy as all that. This week a Houston, Texas manufacturer sent Jefferson $5,000 for its "stand on freedom of education." Other gifts and pledges were arriving, all marked "no strings attached...