Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Labor Mission has spoken with authority, and, according to all accounts, its message has been received approvingly and hopefully by most of the workingmen of Great Britain and France, who, like our own, see no prospect of justice or progress in autocratic militarism or in intolerable anarchy. --New York World...
...view of the number of Harvard teachers who have left the University for immediate war-work, and in prospect of the further reduction next year in the number of students attending Harvard College, especially in the three upper classes, it is reassuring to look over that elaborate bill of fare for 1918-19, the "elective pamphlet." It leads one to exclaim with Ulysses, "Tho' much is taken, much abides." In spite of a blank here and there to be replaced at a later day with a teacher's name, in spite of the recurrences of "Omitted...
...China is afforded her great opportunity by the probable turn of affairs," continued Mr. Merrill. "The pressing necessity for a defence of Manchuria, together with the prospect of a strong ally for the attempt, would act as a spur on the Chinese, for the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the logical line of German advance, cuts directly through Manchuria, which is Chinese territory, and a German foothold there would mean disaster for China. Need for action must compel the Chinese to forget their present internal differences and unite as a nation. German propaganda, to be sure, has been spread in China...
Contrasted with the unusual requirements of our allies for food, the extraordinary needs of our armed forces, and our necessities, is the prospect of a small crop yield for the current season. The Department of Agriculture, in its annual survey, estimates a total production of our food staples less than that of any year since the beginning of the European War. For war purposes it matters not how little or how much these smaller crops exceed in value these of previous years. Armies and nations are fed with food, not with money; it is the physical material itself which must...
...navies give us a prospect of a decrease in sinkings, and the Shipping Board of an increase in tonnage. We can look forward with hope to the gradual eradication of the U-boats' usefulness. As yet, however, it is a hope and far from a reality...