Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high good humor he let the Press in on the news that citizens were criticizing the Works program for its snail's-pace start, for its prospect of amounting to no more than $4,000,000,000 worth of boondoggling and leaf-raking. Just to prove that it would not be boondoggling he was going to read a list of the projects approved day before yesterday. Let the newshawks stop him when they got tired. The President picked up a twelve-page sheaf of papers, commenced to read such items as the following...
...This would add up to a German navy having 35% of Britain's total naval strength and could be represented to the German people as complete British capitulation, but the British public could be told it represented a German concession. So joyful was Adolf Hitler at this prospect that Ambassador von Ribbentrop promptly flew back to London, letting it be known that the Realmleader was willing not only to abide by the 35% limit, category for category, but also to bind Germany to this limit "absolutely and forever...
...Government enterprise-Ontario's famed HydroElectric Power Commission. However, just before Depression, Hydro signed contracts with several big private companies across the border in Quebec, agreeing to purchase additional power on a vast and rising scale for years to come. Thus Hydro was soon faced with the prospect of paying millions for power it could not possibly...
...captain of his soul. Last week, knowing perfectly well that the Empire considers him a traitor to the Labor friends of his youth and a mealymouthed, vain, vaporing shadow at Peace Conferences, Mr. MacDonald looked as he left No. 10 not downcast but happy at the prospect of declining years of ease...
...just can't keep up this bluff any longer, for we are but one. I am faced with the ghastly prospect of filling up not only this column but also the one on the right. If you are still with me, I hope that you will note that it is filled and let it go at that. I have...