Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Church? Would the Pope come out from prison? Would he consent to be once more an Italian as well as a world power? "It is all conversations," replied the Cardinal. "He [Mussolini] does us an amiable favor from time to time but nothing is changed. I see no prospect of a change. Papal Rome is adamant." In a last attempt to strike a spark of Italian patriotism, the reporter asked about the proposed revivification of the Roman Empire. The Cardinal chuckled: "Oh, you like novelties in Paris . . . a new Roman Empire growing from its ashes-dead for so long...
...their transference to foreigners is so restricted as to leave most of the profit in Mexican hands. In short, if the laws come into effect and are held to be constitutional and retroactive, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of "foreign owned property" will dwindle in value before the prospect of endless expensive litigation in the Mexican courts...
...prospect of the new government accomplishing its ends are brighter than the struggles of its construction would indicate. With the foreign policy of Dr. Stresemann, the "New York Times" reports the Socialists in complete accord. The important steps of entering the League of Nations and carrying out the Locarno treaty will have the support of a majority. Any government which can set Germany thus far in the direction of European peace will not be a failure...
...pressure of the price-fixing group?both parties?began last week to tell on the Administration, with the prospect that its farm plans might be modified. Secretary Jardine announced that he was considering the problem of the surplus, that he had decided to call a number of "leaders" to Washington from time to time to confer on a "sound and effective" plan. So the Administration began to turn in its tracks...
...lionized than the peerless conductor of Philadelphia's orchestra. But for Mme. Samaroff, the shock of exciting events began before her birth. A dozen European races mingled to produce her, and she was born in San Antonio, Tex. Thence her path has been paved with incidents, even to the prospect of pronouncing upon her divorced husband's orchestral reading as he leads an orchestra to which her present employer, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, and his son-in-law, Edward W. Bok, have been the chief lay contributors...