Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warranted in saying that I do not intend to ask the Senate to modify its position. I do not believe the Senate would take favorable action on any such proposal, and unless the requirements of the Senate resolution are met by the other interested nations I can see no prospect of this country adhering to the Court...
Mediterranean Rumblings. Setting aside the distant prospect of a Pan-Asian League there loomed the immediate probability that the "T. and T." conference will serve as a counter blast to the understandings arrived at between British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain and Premier Mussolini, at their recent meeting (TIME...
...Committee pursued its negotiations with Premier Baldwin and a settlement appeared looming on the basis of district agreements between the miners, owners, subject to revision in individual cases by a national coal tribunal under Government auspices. There was every prospect that the miners will have to accept longer hours and lower wages than was their lot before they struck...
This rah-rah stuff is the bunk. I drive a car, as you will see, and it cost more than $1,000 and not second hand. But I never went to college. I can read, all right, so I guess I'm just as good a prospect for your advertisers as if I had spent four years loafing in school some place...
...quite sure your effort is all in vain. Here is one company head who could never be convinced by such figures as you will secure that we could sell our product through your columns. Just because I own a Buick does not make me a better prospect for furniture. Neither does the fact that I went to college, while my wife did not, make her less interested in good furniture or me more so. So why bother to compile such figures...