Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Talking motion pictures which threaten to revolutionize so decidedly the stage and screen, will also be the instrument of making English the international language, according to the recent statement of a British film magnate. English as the practical successor to Esperanto may appear a visionary prospect until one considers the influence of the talkies in the far and near sections of the world. The younger set in the Fiji Islands, for example, are certain to become vitally interested in English upon beholding the magic of the silver screen and listening to the soft charm of the Hollywood talkies' silver tongue...
Last October-just before the election-President Coolidge announced that he was troubled by the prospect of a deficit next June 30. He could see only the "narrowest margin between revenue and expenditures." An air of anxiety, if not gloom, was thus cast over the Treasury-in voters' minds. The conservative conclusion could only be: If a deficit threatens, let us not change horses, i.e., political party control, in midstream. The President's announcement was also used as a fiscal hackamore to make Congress stand hitched...
...prints of lower Manhattan Island, the outstanding feature is a slim spire rising high above the shops, residences and counting houses around it-the spire of Trinity Church. Nowadays the only distant prospect of Trinity spire is up that chasm of counting houses from which residences long ago departed, Wall Street...
...salesmanship. Today, there are two requirements for success in salesmanship. First, a man should have a clear, alert, open mind, and be honest, both commercially and intellectually. Second, he should have a capacity for sustained, hard work. Under the first heading he should be able to meet his prospect on even ground and discuss his problems intelligently. Under the second heading he must be able to ring door bells, either metaphorically or literally, day after day, always having in mind that the way to get new customers is to go out and get them, and that no amount of advertising...
...again. It is quite clear that the present arrangements for the protection of minorities are inadequate, but it is hard to see what more can be done without arousing international animosities and creating international tension. The fault lies in large part with the peace settlements, but there is little prospect of their being revised without war. Under the circumstances one is driven back to the hope that humanity will live and learn, that, in the words of a recent Czech writer, the exaggerated idea of nationalism will gradually die out and give way to a new idea of co-operation...