Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau (TIME, May 20): "Just as it is no use to try to anchor a ship if the anchorage is always shifting, so it seems to me it would be futile to attempt to bring about stabilization in that way until we can see some prospect of stability of conditions after that stabilization has been effected. All I can say, therefore, is that stabilization is one of our ultimate objectives. We are now watching, and shall continue to watch, the situation with a view to taking action at any time that it seems...
Today, with the Blue Eagle and the rest of the Roosevelt program, looking more fit for the Walter Reed Hospital than Capitol Hill, the truth of Mayor LaGuardia's blunt challenge makes itself felt more strongly than ever. With the cheery prospect before it, that if the Senate doesn't strangle it the Supreme Court will, the formerly tempestuous bird is flapping his wings in increasing futility. Yet most liberal thinkers would hate to see the Roosevelt program scrapped in its entirety, no matter how many stones have been thrown at various parts of it. As Mark Sullivan has pointed...
Princeton, N. J., Princeton's 150-Pound Crew Prospects--May 13, 1935--Its best season in years is in prospect as the Tiger lightweight crew prepares to go to Cambridge next Saturday to battle Yale and Harvard's fifties in the Goldthwait Cup races...
...Anthropology, his tutor would send him to individual lectures in other department, thus obviating the need for the student's absorbing the welter of material distributed over a whole course. Unhappily, tutoring is the most expensive means of education, and lecturing the cheapest, precluding for the immediate present the prospect of fulfilling so interesting a suggestion. Nonetheless, it should be borne in mind-meanwhile an attempt should be made so to coordinate the two methods as to prevent the possibility of redundancy...
...silent partner of the Entente." Having permitted the Allies to destroy U. S. trade with the Central Powers, "if we now permitted the Central Powers to destroy our trade with the Allies, we should be risking a real and final economic collapse. No political administration could face that prospect." But why. of these two evils, did the U. S. choose to swallow one rather than the other? The answer, says Millis...