Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stranded Front. A large group of unemployed (perhaps 300,000 families) live in communities where the one local industry is dead or dying and there is no work or prospect of work. Efforts are to be made to transport such stranded populations wholesale to some other community where they can be taught subsistence homesteading and provided with "supplemental or industrial opportunities" to regain a normal standard of living...
...been estimated that about $100,000,000 has been invested in airports in different parts of the country. Many of the airport companies have indicated that the airmail situation is affecting them adversely. Indeed, commercial aviation has received a body blow from which it will not soon recover. The prospect of getting extra capital, which is needed from time to time in any growing industry, may also have been diminished by the erratic policy followed by the government in first stimulating the development of commercial aviation and then taking its principal support away and transferring the job to the army...
...could not suggest a fifth year in the high schools to prepare the college prospect. Nor would the student look with relish on the prospect of an extra year, an added mile-stone on the road to a degree. No faculty would admit of its practicality without an increase of its members or its salaries. And when America is spending $386,000,000 less this year on secondary education than it did in 1930, when 175,000 school children lack primary training in the three R's because their communities lack cash, such a course is patently impractical. The only...
Surely it should not require a year to mould the prospective scholar into ductile shape for upperclass work; at least, that year should involve a progress beyond his intellectual adolescence. The standards in the elemental subjects with which the prospect has chosen to arm himself to pass the Chairman of Admissions must be raised so that these subjects need not be taught to such students in College in their introductory form. None would suggest the elimination of primary courses, but they should become the canape rather than the cocktail of the freshman year...
...will begin by saying that I regard the Norfolk prison as an admirable prospect. It is the one creditable page in the history of prison administration in Massachusetts, and should not be allowed to fail by reason either or critical comment on the part of interested or uninformed people, or, in order to meet the conveniences of the situation, by making unwise use of its facilities and by unwise use I mean mixing unfit men with the trustworthy men who are found there, in a way that would bring about disorders and apparent failure of the system...