Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This decision caused me much heart searching. The prospect of inviting a man to my house with the intention of killing him horrified me. Whoever the man might be-even Rasputin, the incarnation of crime and vice-I could not contemplate without a shudder the part which I would be called upon to play-that of a host encompassing the death of his guest...
...when New York established the first ambulance service in the U. S. Its building, for decades muggy and stuffy, is older. De Witt Clinton, onetime (1803-15) Mayor of New York, laid the cornerstone in 1811. Grass spread about it then; the East River was a pleasant prospect. Now all is grime and noise...
...Chairman and Secretary of the Law School Society of the Phillips Brooks House decided to extend the scope of the Phillips Brooks House Association by renewing the Legal Aid Bureau. In the spring of 1914 they secured a desk at the Prospect Union where they met clients and carried on the work of a small law office...
More has probably been said this fall about the quarterback situation at Harvard than about any other feature of the University's gridiron prospect. And everywhere the story has been told with the same pessimistic shrug, the same forecast of impending disaster. For Harvard, be it known, has no quarter backs this year, and without a quarter back how can a team be expected to produce results...
Broadway's producers, who in the crucial moment of selection are most swayed by the prospect of fat boxoffice returns, have of late staked their ultimate pennies on the play of the theatre. Of this description "Ballyhoo," "The Shannons of Broadway," "Burlesque," "The Wild Man of Borneo," "The Barker," and "Broadway" have been the most notable, the last-named two even leaving the secure delights of a Manhattan audience to brave with confident melodrama what is now known throughout the profession as the Boston titter...