Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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RECREATION IN AND ABOUT BOSTON. Compiled by The Prospect Union Association. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Price...
...anyone suppose that with this two-fold experience I would consider with anything but horror the prospect of another war? Even if it were to arise between two countries only, a war nowadays would inevitably become a general war. Civilization itself would be endangered. New discoveries of science would make a future war even more dreadful than the last. The danger of death would not be reserved for fighters, but whole populations would be imperiled without the possibility of effective protection...
...that to raise and pay to veterans $2,775,000,000 would retard, not hasten prosperity. Rather, let the people who now have the $2,775,000,000 spend it instead of hoarding.-ED. Byrd Brother 1. Lindbergh In-Law Sirs: "Ohio's Bulkley" does appear a strong prospect for the next Democratic Presidential nomination (TIME, Nov. 24), but even stronger looms Virginia's famed ex-Governor Harry Flood Byrd. No cigar chewer, no derby hat donner, nor "thumbs-in-the-vest politician," he is known everywhere for his progressive administration of the "Old Dominion," his loyalty...
...that familiar platitude is aired in the quaint garb which Mr. Bynner has provided. Like the three-year-old we shall eat the frosting which he has spread on his delectation, leaving the more solid fare to the erudite, if there be any such in attendance, unrepelled at the prospect of a "fantasy in verse...
...Generals, male or female, must retire at the age of 70. This gives General Higgins command until 1932. Evangeline Booth, 64, Commander of the Army in the U. S. & Possessions, has in possible prospect four years of succession. Catherine Booth, whom her father, Salvationists believe, planned to succeed himself...