Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buckled down to work harder than ever to muster a two-thirds convention majority for their candidate. 2) New England jumped joyfully at the chance of starting a Smith drive. 3) The Dry South cried out in anger and dismay. 4) The entire Republican Party fairly jubilated at the prospect of another major split among Democrats on liquor and religion...
...Polaire's most devoted admirer and in-veigles him into matrimony. There follows the one scene in which the cinema does not quite measure up to the play; namely, where Schatze and Polaire, over a bottle of champagne, commiserate with Jean about her wedding. Appalled at the prospect of a honeymoon, Jean removes her wedding dress and with her friends goes to Paris, accoutered in her underclothes and bent on misbehavior...
...weather is sufficiently mild to permit out-of-door competitions, the sprints and hurdles will be held on the board track today. In this case the 45-yard hurdles will come at 3 o'clock with E. E. Record '32, captain of the University track team, as a promising prospect for the first medal. A large field of entries will try for honors in the 50-yard dash at 3.15 o'clock, and this will be followed at 3.30 o'clock by the 300-yard race.The summary...
This year he is promoting, without much prospect of success, legislation to push the fleet quickly up to full treaty strength (estimated cost...
...turning, for the time being at least, in the direction of protection. Germany can do little, because France more than once has made it plain that she will use her political and financial power to veto attempts by Germany to secure markets through lower tariffs. If there any prospect that the United States will abandon its philosophy of extreme protectionism? Perhaps it is unreasonable to expect most voters to see the connection between commercial policies and their pocketbooks...