Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking ahead Dr. Angell saw a bleak prospect in the attempts at censorship already with us in the form of taxation on universities and oath bills...
...With the prospect of four more equally strenuous days ahead, fits of weeping broke out. Someone stepped on "Miss Cincinnati's" toe, causing an infection that sent her to a hospital. Girls who arrived thin were growing thinner. "Miss Bluegrass" was down to a measly 95 lb. When Director George D. Tyson heard that some of the girls were in a rebellious mood, he firmly announced: "Any girls not following the approved schedule will be disqualified...
...arrearage. In July Goodrich directors proposed a recapitalization plan by which preferred stockholders would give up their birds in the bushes for birds nearer to hand. Each share of 7% $100 par preferred would get 1.4 shares of new $5 no par preferred, leaving the annual dividend prospect unchanged at $7. For waiving accumulated dividends of $35 a share stockholders would receive half a share of common stock which sold last week for $23 a share...
...long abed, early morning worship being for a select few, the Vagabond too old and ragged a fellow for the company. Wistfully musing, till reconciled by the happy thought that religious democracy isn't Puritan and John Harvard was. Felt cheered in my heart, moreover, by prospect of a morning of speeches that even the Vagabond and his merry fellows could understand, after so promiscuous a display of forbidding wisdom...
Well represented by prints of old college scenes, the graphic arts contain some of the rarest of the items to be seen. The two earliest known ones are being shown: the Burgis view is the only version in the first state, and is extremely valuable, and the Paul Revere prospect, said to be the only copy in a private collection. Revere also contributed several fine pieces of silverware. While few people realized it, one of Paul Revere's biggest sources of income was his manufacture of false teeth. While none of these are on view George Washington had a fine...