Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity schedule includes races with Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, M.I.T., and Yale. There is a prospect of a race against Columbia...
...through a vast and wealthy region. And now everyone wants Mr. Insull to come back and see what he can do with Middle West; they are willing to admit that the man who is supposed to have lost their money for them is the only man who has much prospect of getting it back again. Samuel Insull did not pervert the systems of capitalistic finance, and he is not a big had wolf. Only in the crescendo does the theme become manifest, and only in a simon-pure capitalist like Mr. Insull do the real implications of capitalism become obvious...
...children of Singapore Sahibs at Government House, then resumed their huddle. Broadly they discussed the naval situation created in Pacific waters by the fact that the U. S. and Japan are adding to their fleets even faster than is Great Britain, with a major "naval face" in prospect when the London Naval Treaty expires next year...
...Cubans!" One morning last week the strike was suddenly on. SCRATCH!-with a potent squiggle President Grau seized all Cuban Electric Co.'s properties, sent Government troops to occupy them. Before nightfall the dynamos were humming again. Cuba had light and the 30% rate reduction was an immediate prospect. Any operating loss, the President announced, would be borne by the Treasury. It was about time, thought U. S. investors, that President Roosevelt's personal representative in Havana, hard, able Mr. Jefferson Caffery, put through a little "garage diplomacy."* Mr. Caffery had not been idle. Shifting from President Grau...
Courts of law offered the seven against war a poor prospect of relief. Last November the U. S. Supreme Court refused to review the case of a student objector suspended from the University of Maryland. Last week California's Supreme Court upheld the University of California's dismissal of two students who had found R. O. T. C. drill abhorrent...