Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Show, "The Late Mr. Kidd', starts on its second week with every prospect of being even more successful than "Al Fareedah" was last year. There are four performances scheduled for this week, two of which are in Cambridge, tomorrow and Thursday. The other two performances are at infantry Hall, Providence, Wednesday, and at Jordan Hall. Boston, Saturday evening. There are a few tickets still available for tomorrow's performance, which have been exchanged for tickets for Thursday. These, and the tickets for Thursday's performance, can be obtained at Levitt & Peirce's. There will be dancing until 12 o'clock...
...with the bat that he stood out most prominently, and pitchers in the select circle of baseball, in the International League, and out on the Pacific Coast were anything but pleased with the prospect of trying to slip over a fast one to him. In 1909 he led the Pacific Coast League in batting and two years later had the highest batting and fielding averages in the International League, batting well over 300. He has headed a total of nine leagues in batting averages...
...whose purpose is an India not only freed entirely of English rule but purged of every trace of European civilization. This party realizes that if the people became contented with the present representative government, its chance for driving the English from India will be lost. Therefore the greater the prospect of success shown by the new system, the more desperate become the attempts to overthrow it. Satisfied people will not revolt, and the Extremist party wants a Revolution, although it has neither plans nor ideas as to what would follow were the revolution successful. When asked whether a revolution could...
Under this government India was filled with a growing unrest. When the war broke out and India, contrary to the expectation of Germany, remained loyal, when self-determination was held out to the Arab States, and when Egypt had a prospect of independence, the Indian began to demand that his system of government be radically changed. Recognizing the seriousness of the situation the British government sent Lord Montagu to India in 1918 to study the country and return a report to Parliament advising what course to pursue. In June, 1918, Lord Montagu presented his report, which ranks with Lord-Durham...
...opportunity for investing our surplus energies in European reconstruction, the country faces the increasingly serious question of unemployment. We are constantly hearing about a "shortage of labor", but in direct conflict to this statement are the thousands of men who are out of work and who apparently have little prospect of finding a job. Recent estimates place the number of idle laborers on January...