Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Police Department is unable to cope with it uniformly and generally, the fault lies with the law, and not with the situation. The surest way to kill an unfair or an unjust law is to endeavor to enforce it, an eventuality best illustrated by Prohibition. Perhaps it is this prospect that leads the city to apply the parking law to students by the crude technique of random samples...
...seems to be only a flimsy excuse and perhaps the last faint touches of a sake hangover. The disconcerting presence of geisha girls seems to find a good deal of favor when one asks the why and wherefore. After all, Americans are not too numerous in Japan and the prospect of spending a pleasant few hours with a bunch of Harvard ball-players must have made many a comely Japanese maiden forget her afternoon prayers...
...room-mate was a "little upset" last year at the prospect of being so intimate with the heastie, but this year's neighbors seem to take it in good part although the plot may thicken if Barnard's enterprising snake-fancier his wish to add an eight-feet pine snake and a bos-constrictor to his little family...
...route and the coaches are waiting eagerly to see if Graham (Blimp) Springs formerly of the Class of 1935 will return to college. He was out of Harvard last year but Jayvee Coach Jimmy Knox thinks that he will come back. Blimp is said to be the greatest tackle prospect that over appeared on the Crimson horizon...
Theirs is the only industry in which a man already in his grave is a prospect. Even though the average price of a tombstone dropped from $500 to $350 as Depression deepened, many a man preferred to leave his loved one's grave unmarked until he could afford a memorial. These unmarked graves are the industry's backlog, each a potential sale...