Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accord is not without deep concern to the U. S. There is now every prospect that the duties fixed for German goods in several hundred different categories will soon be applied to U. S. products, and will therefore have an adverse influence on French imports from the U. S. on account of higher U. S. prices and the great shipment distances involved. U. S. businessmen in France were accordingly hopeful that the Franco-German Treaty will have the effect of hastening the conclusion of a U. S.-French treaty, which they feel is badly needed to protect their legitimate interests...
...Manhattan one R. C. Walton, newly arrived from England, inquired how best to reach Coney Island, famed pleasure beach. When advised to take the subway, he became elated at the prospect of a good walk...
...them all washed away, are now planting a fourth. Stagnant waters have formed tremendous swamps, mosquito-infested. There is fear of a large scale outbreak of malaria. Mr. Hoover has estimated that Red Cross funds will last till Nov. 1, with $3,000,000 left over. There seemed little prospect that the flood area, as a whole, would be in any way self-supporting by November or for some time after...
This new theatre, which will form a part of the undergraduate building quadrangle is to be named the McCarter Theatre by action of the Board of Trustees. It will be the first unit of the proposed undergraduate center at Prospect Street. The auditorium will seat 900 persons...
Epistles: (answering Gladstone's rebuke) ". . . and after all, it may be that 'to ride an unbroken horse with the reins thrown upon his neck'-as you charge me with doing-gives a greater variety of sensations, a keener delight, and a better prospect of winning the race than to sit solemnly astride of a dead one in a deep reverential calm, with the bridle firmly in your hand...