Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usual system in building an Honor Bilt home is to insist that the lot be free from liens, then to accept it as a 25% equity in the total cost, Sears, Roebuck furnishing the rest on a first-mortgage payable monthly for 15 years. Investigations of prospective customers are made and no home will be sold which is considered beyond the prospect's means. Family budgets are also furnished. The lumber is sent readycut and marked, labor furnished from the locality (until this year, labor was not included). The homes vary from three to nine rooms, cost from...
Jobless men in half of the 48 States drew their frayed coats closer, shivered at the prospect of a hard, hungry winter...
Some 300 prisoners were produced by the Federals, and some 200 by the Rebels, the only tangible evidence that both sides had made gains. In Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, where sympathy with the Rebels runs high, reports were zealously circulated that "a long conflict is in prospect, and, should decisive victory prove impossible, the Rebel states may be expected to secede." Uruguayans hope fervently to enlarge their little republic by welcoming in a few Brazilian secession states...
...Freshmen may not walk on the grass. 4. Freshmen may not smoke on the street or on the Campus. 5. Freshmen may not enter Renwick's. 6. Freshmen may not use the walk in front of Nassau Hall or McCosh Walk. 7. Freshmen are not allowed on Prospect Street at any time. 8. Freshmen should get off the walk for every other class, since seniority determines possession of the sidewalk. 9. The riding of bicycles by Freshmen is forbidden. 10. White flannels or knickers can be worn only for golf or tennis. 11. Freshmen are not to go without...
...calculations have, however, been made with the prospect of having a good dry field for the game. But yesterday the weather man changed the aspect of the tilt by ordering rain, and although he has promised fair weather for today there is no telling just what the field will be like. The canvas covering that groundkeeper Dennis Enright always gets out on rainy days covered the gridiron all day yesterday but consistent rains will make the field soggy just the same...