Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accomplish this purpose a bill was last week offered in the House by Representative William Williamson, chairman of the Committee on Executive Expenditures. In the Senate Chairman Norris of the Judiciary Committee promised "early and careful" consideration of the question. The U. S. Drys, Consolidated, generally applauded the prospect of the transfer and most of their friends in Congress promised action...
...same thing was soon said by the Conservative Daily Telegraph: "We are witnessing the end of organized Liberalism as a political force." Both major parties appeared gleeful at the prospect that the 5,000,000 Britons who last time voted Liberal may be obliged to choose, next time, between voting Laborite or Conservative. This would restore the historic two-party system of the British Parliament-the system which Britons think they see working so well...
...early settlers in Haiti were a cold and hard-hearted lot who gradually exterminated the native Indians. A labor shortage developed. This was a prospect no Spanish grandee could face with equanimity, and so he found a substitute for the Indian in the blacks of Africa, and these he imported as fast as he could, making them his slaves. The colonists of Spain were not a tenacious lot, however, and in 1697 the Island of Haiti was ceded to France under the name of Saint Dominique...
...Government was therefore constantly borrowing more money, and with each successive loan realizing less and less of the total amount of the flotation. The bonds were increasingly hard to sell, both in Haiti and abroad, and as the bankers knew that payment in full was a dim and distant prospect they demanded huge commissions for their services...
...short, the Vagabond means that void between the end of examinations and the beginning of the next term. Most undergraduates have anywhere from a week to ten days of freedom with nothing in prospect but a bacchanalian wassail or a scant jaunt to the hearth of his childhood. Both of these have their disadvantages. The first, purely aside from constitutional controversy, is bound to grow tiresome as a steady diet, and the latter very likely proves an unwonted strain on the purse-strings...