Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dominion Government, alarmed at the prospect, quickly arranged with London to pay $3,500,000 should Premier Lang really default. London bankers announced that ample Dominion funds were already on deposit in London to do this...
With a constantly renewed supply of immature readers added to the mass of mildly educated people in the country, there is every prospect for the continued vigor of tabloids and semi-tabloids. Nevertheless the optimism of such an outstanding journalist as Mr. Lippman is cheering. Post-war feverishness has found expression largely in the metro-politan dailies, and a revival of sanity and restraint in the press would be a hopeful sign for American civilization. It will be interesting to observe the ratio between the Times and the Graphic in the subway cars...
...self-respecting, and might prove an equal benefit to scholarship. The obstacles in the way of effective adult education are obvious. Most men, while they will accept the pre-digested education offered by the radio, are not interested in advanced study requiring difficult thought. In the absence of any prospect of financial gain, there is apparently no sufficient incentive to sustained mental effort...
...Passion v. Prudence" The prospect of the Progressive conference and its in- evitable criticism of the Hoover Adminis-tration gave the G. O. P. a touch of cold shivers. Day before the meeting the Republican National Committee, through its counsel, James Francis Burke, spoke de- fensively as follows: "The American people are already suffering from an overproduction of politics. . . . The whole country is now praying for political relief. So why not give politics a short recess? . . . Everyone must cool off and carry on. We must stop snarling and begin smiling. Sanity will then have more front seats and more front...
...noisy and truculent; 4) the South as in 1928 is confronted with the question of being Dry or Democratic; 5) Chairman Raskob holds his job more firmly than ever; 6) no presidential candidate profited from the meeting; 7) another convention of the Madison Square Garden 1924 kidney is in prospect for the party...