Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assumed the direction of the Mt. Prospect Laboratory of the Brooklyn and New York Water department. Seven years later he resigned his official appointment and took up the private practice of sanitary engineering in New York city as a member of the firm of Hazen and Whipple...
...definitely that he would not propose new tax cuts to Congress at least until the close of the present fiscal year (June 30) when the Government's books can be balanced to show the net result of the present tax law. Consequently, no extra session of Congress is in prospect...
...weather forecast for today holds forth the dismal prospect of rain to the 80.000 people who will throng the Bowl at New Haven this afternoon...
...action, but his activity suggests the fields and not the city. He is quick with humour and not a sluggard in the matter of wit; but both his humour and his wit never suggest the smoking-room and the dinner-party, but rather the open sky and a prospect of shining hills. I think he has something of the peasant's obstinacy and is not altogether free from a certain obtuseness...
...underestimated. It means that Yale will have to fight for every yard Saturday. Those gloom dispensers who are figuring the Eli score against Harvard by adding 34 to 10 are reckoning without the Crimson forwards. Yale will be the favorite. It would be foolish to hint otherwise. The prospect of a run-away score for the Blue is, however, remote, with the Crimson line functioning as it did yesterday...