Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a child-bearing Russian housewife, already beset with a scarcity of salt, sugar, matches, soap, etc., last week faced the prospect of didying her infant with her own platok (kerchief) because of an acute shortage of diapers. The Government organ Izvestia revealed that of the 1938 quota of 3,170,000 diapers, the Commissariat of Light Industry had managed to turn out only 765,900 in the first nine months of the year. To make matters worse, Izvestia somewhat puzzlingly added, "many of these failed to reach the ultimate consumer." Presaging a "purge" of the luckless officials, the paper...
...sister of Great Britain's late King George V, last surviving child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra; of heart disease; in London. When Princess Maud married Prince Charles of Benmark (later King Haakon of Norway) in 1896 in a royal love match, there was little prospect of a throne for them. But when Norway seceded from Sweden in 1905, it chose the couple as its sovereigns. To the Norwegian populace they were known as "Mr. King" and "Mrs. Queen...
...toad (prospect who visits all the dealers, inspects, tries cars out, but never buys...
...Munich I spoke on the subject of the future of Spain with both Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini. Both of them assured me most definitely that they had no territorial ambitions whatever in Spain, and I would remind you that when we were apparently faced with the prospect of a new major war, General Franco made a declaration of neutrality and said he would not violate the French frontier unless he were attacked from that quarter...
...spite of the fact that the Republicans staged a spectacular comeback in the Congressional elections last Tuesday, there is no immediate prospect of a sweeping victory in 1940, arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government said in an interview yesterday...