Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Even the most reactionary Englishman does not look with friendliness at the prospect of a Nazi or Fascist Spain," he declared, when questioned about the strife in the land of the bull-fights. He stressed the precariousness of the position of England's Gibraltar in the present crisis...
...central principle in all true con [confidence] rackets is to show a sucker how he can make some money by dishonest methods and then beat him in his attempted dishonesty." Standard forms: helping the victim ("prospect") to find a pocketbook, whose grateful owner, another thief, persuades him to invest money of his own in a fake gambling or brokerage office; arranging with the victim to cheat another member of the gang at cards or dice; selling counterfeit pawn tickets for supposedly stolen articles; selling shares in smuggled property; selling complicated but useless counterfeiting machines. Confidence men also practice such sidelines...
...Father McGlynn, condemned his views and summoned him to the Vatican to account for them. Rebel McGlynn ignored the summons (and three later ones), was accordingly ordered excommunicated in 1887. For five years the priest, a devout Catholic, was unable to say or attend mass, was faced with the prospect, unless he recanted, of ending his days without the ministrations of the Church. But a substantial body of Catholics, clergy as well as laity, remained on Dr. McGlynn's side. And in 1891 Pope Leo XIII issued a great social encyclical, Rerum Novarum, which aligned the Church...
When Lawrence made sodium radioactive, the prospect arose of administering salt containing radio-sodium, as a saline solution to be swallowed or injected. The radiation dwindles by half every 15 hours and practically dies out in a few days. This was tried on some patients at the University of California hospital, and although the results were inconclusive, Lawrence feels that no such promising line of investigation should be dropped until it has been followed out further. His brother, Dr. John Lawrence of Yale Medical School, is helping him with the biological research and writing reports for medical publications. Another possibility...
...Borough of Universities" (Fordham, N. Y. U.), less than 500 people came to the opening concert. Foreseeing deficits of $1.500 per concert, the thrifty backers of The Bronx Symphony backed out. Last week, for the time being at least, The Bronx Symphony appeared faced with the appalling prospect of meeting its contracts with Mr. Marrow and his men by holding concerts in Brooklyn or Manhattan. Wistfully to President Lyons the pressagent of the Symphony wrote that the performance had been "one of the greatest artistic successes ever staged in Greater New York. . . . The few people who attended the opening performance...