Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sells-Floto Circus were put on limited rations, the savings given Zoopark. The first of three Sunday benefit performances at the Zoo brought $1,000. Los Angeles schoolchildren scraped together $9 in pennies and dimes. At week's end a new flood-of paying visitors -brought the cheering prospect that for the first time Zoopark would have not only horsemeat and hay for its animals but leftover gravy for its treasury...
...like Harvard very much," the "Digger" declared last night, "but with the prospect of the job I think I should be wasting my time here if I were to stay." He said that he will plan to train some while working, and will probably swim in the National A.A.U. meet, unattached. He also expects to compete in the next Olympics--for Australia, because he is still an Australian citizen despite his residence in this country...
...never yet been tested by a regime which has spent money like Franklin Roosevelt's. While deepening Depression should presumably help turn the political tide this year, it might not if the Administration turned on another huge spending program such as last week seemed a fairly likely prospect. Last week, Practical Politician Joe Martin's chief complaint was strikingly familiar: "You just can't tell what that fellow in the White House will do next...
...cause of this portentous prospect was a dispute as to whether an expired contract guaranteeing no wage reductions should be extended for three months or for one year as the union demanded. Early this week Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, who knows how to remain calm under labor fire, deposited the contending parties in separate hotel rooms and, after seven consecutive hours of shuttling back & forth, the union agreed to call off the "revolution" in exchange for a four-month extension...
...fair as the individual professor who set each class its problem. To this complaint Professor Gropius lent a sympathetic ear, changed the system. Another Gropius innovation was instruction in industrial design by Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian designer who is credited with having developed the first tubular chair. Now in prospect are workshops where Breuer pupils may learn at first-hand the uses of modern materials. But the most extraordinary proof of Architect Gropius' success is a requirement soon to be adopted by the Harvard Architectural School: that no student can graduate unless he has had six months' hard...