Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last autumn the Senate adopted an amendment to the tariff bill, offered by New Mexico's Bronson Murray Cutting, to discard the present system whereunder Treasury agents on steamship docks seize and destroy imported books which they judge obscene or immoral (TIME. Oct. 21). Appalled at the prospect of a flood of dirty foreign literature washing up on clean U. S. shores, Senator Smoot made a collection of volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read...
Women: Aged 12, he was married to the present Mrs. Gandhi, then also aged 12 but in the bud of womanhood which blows so early in India. Mr. Gandhi, who at 12 enjoyed the prospect rather than the substance of manhood, became troubled and ashamed when his child-wife openly mocked him for his immaturity...
...largest single unit in the American Federation of Labor. Coal operators bowed to its will, accepted its working and wage contracts. It negotiated the famed Jacksonville agreement (1924) for high wages in the bituminous fields. When it so much as threatened a strike, people shivered at the prospect of a coal shortage. At the peak of his power President Lewis, on a $12,000 per year salary, ruled some 500,000 Union miners...
...people he would serve, contrive to annoy him; yet a little praise from those people, though it may be slow in coming, can sweeten the bitterness of a thousand quibbling opponents. For the woman who is a conscientious helpmeet, however, there are innumerable trails and duties without the prospect of direct self-satisfaction; the pleasure of success can be for her at best only a reflected glow, while the darts of the fault-finders penetrate her as deeply as they do her husband...
...Maternity Act lapsed June 30 last. The Child Labor Amendment was never ratified. No Department of Education legislation is in serious prospect...