Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the lack of scrimmage work, Coach Harlow expressed himself satisfied with the results of the practice sessions. Many new candidates have been drawn by the prospect of a new deal in Harvard football, and while few of the lettermen participated in the drills to any great extent, much progress has been made toward the formation of a strong, evenly balanced squad for next fall...
...brightening Wall Street sentiment had nothing to do with a sudden shift in the internal affairs of the New York Stock Exchange, which is something of a world to itself. The prospect of a hot contest for the presidency in the coming Exchange elections disappeared when Richard Whitney decided not to run for a sixth term. Since it was a foregone conclusion that the nominating committee would not pick Mr. Whitney to succeed himself, his friends were loudly urging him to break all precedent by standing on an independent ticket in order to vindicate his turbulent administration (TIME, April...
...speeches indicate that he would rather live in the White House than become an octogenarian. "I should be in my own eyes intellectually dishonest, if I failed to warn you! . . ." he cried recently in Topeka. "All the evil forces of corruption which are attracted by the prospect of political spoils have left the Republican fold and attached themselves to the opposition. Let them go! As a party we have been deloused. . . . Get America back on the payroll." A middle-of-the-roader, with geography on his side, Candidate Knox to-day waits & watches his chance to disclose himself...
...dopesters were convinced last week that the nominating committee will not name President Whitney for a sixth term. Its choice will apparently be Charles R. Gay, senior partner of Whitehouse & Co., oldest firm on the Exchange (founded 1828). And what had turned the Floor into a hustings was the prospect that President Whitney would break all precedent by running for re-election on an independent ticket...
There is real cause for concern in the fact that the World Revolution will sweep all before it. Were the prospect less awesome, the day of the Great Event could be faced with courage, for surely it would see many remarkable things...