Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When advertising was very young, nearly every advertisement envisaged a direct, immediate sale. The prospect was urged to remove his pimples at once. Now it is otherwise. Advertising is primarily engaged in influencing public opinion, slowly, subtly. And in this way advertising has become a tool of all human design...
Coach Hawley kept several of his regulars on the sidelines, and uncovered a good quarterback prospect in Marshall, who played in McPhall's position the entire game...
...English team when interviewed jointly shortly after their arrival last night at the Bellevue, found the prospect ty of the United States the country's feature most apparent to the foreigner. All three members of the team were unanimous in declaring the standard of living among all classes in this country to be higher than in Europe. "In England," Mr. Lloyd-Jones told the CRIMSON, "there has usually been begging in the larger cities. Not only is this so since the war; it has always been more or less the case. But here in America we have seen very little...
...Italy newspapers were pessimistic over the prospect of a debt settlement with the U. S. because of the French failure, but it was announced that the Italian debt mission will sail for the U. S. on Oct. 20 in spite of the prospect...
With the strike, due to failure (TIME, Aug. 31) to reach a new wage contract, comtinuing for its second month in the nation's anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania, and with no prospect of a settlement there in sight, John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, traveled into West Virginia to start a strike there...