Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly a hundred years ago, when they started out on their new business adventure--for, it was a new adventure in those days:--just as the first subway was an adventure in our time. They looked over the city, selected a route which seemed to offer the best prospect. Accidental conditions might have been entirely responsible for its location, but the chief requirement was the possibility of early profit on the investment. In other words, some traffic seemed immediately in sight, with a good chance for more to quickly follow. This was the controlling consideration. The question of circulating...
...announced definitely that Captain Brown and Marshall in the ham-her-throw will be the sole University entries on Saturday while Brown will also put the shot Friday afternoon. Next to Brown, Burke, who won the mile against both the Navy and Virginia, would be Coach Bingham's best prospect, but the carnival has no race of a suitable distance for him except in the relays and the University coach does not want to send a team of runners to Philadelphia...
...George A. Brownell. The Bureau has continued to send fifteen men to the Boston Legal Aid Society to aid in its work, in addition to the twenty men who handle the cases which come to the Cambridge office. The office of the Bureau had to be moved from the Prospect Union because of the closing of that organization. Through the courtesy of the directors and officers of the Cambridge Welfare Union the Bureau has this year shared a room in the offices of that organization, just across the street from the Prospect Union in Central Square. The arrangement has proved...
...vulgar eye, that threadhare old scarcecrow, "British Conservatism," has pulled himself together and is working off the effects of a violent "jag." The shades of Addison and Steele, returned to earth, if they survived half a day in London traffic, would shrink away in horror at the prospect of the press. The struggle for supremacy has led from one exploit to another. The papers are daring each other into new ways of getting subscribers. The "Morning Post" promises eloquently to become the premier daily in Britain. The "Telegraph" has begun to deliver its Contest edition to Paris before breakfast...
...field events which as last year will be in charge of Coach Farrell, present on the whole a less favorable prospect than the running events. In the hammer throw, however, Captain J. F. Brown '22 should contribute five points to the points to the University's total in the majority of meets. By his work last year with his victory against the combined Oxford-Cambridge team as the climax, as well s by his record this year, ending with his recent victory in the indoor Intercollegiate he stands as the best weight thrower in the East. He will be supported...