Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With little more than a light workout in prospect, the Varsity lacrosse team opposes the weak Boston University ten at 4 o'clock today on Soldiers Field. The B. U. aggregation was downed by Tech 10-0 in the season opener, while Harvard deluged the Engineers under an equal barrage of goals. To date the Varsity has won over M. I. T. the Boston Lacrosse Club, and Brown by substantial scores, while typing the U. S. Naval Academy and dropping a close skirmish with St. John's, the strongest club in Maryland...
...along many levels, most of which he had not before suspected, and he may flatter himself that he knows one work, if not thoroughly, at least whole. There will be less temptation for him to cut meetings of this course, incidentally, than almost any other he can take; the prospect of a reading from the professor is enough to draw even the most reluctant student. English 35a is an admirable course for men who are not concentrating in English; it opens to anyone the agreeable opportunity of learning one of the four or five greatest books in the world, with...
...fixtures, where he pours himself a goblet of cold water. It runs down his throat, and into his stomach, every inch of its course distinctly felt. A sensation of feeble exhilaration comes over him, and he puts on his raiment, slowly, with hands that will not quite close. The prospect of a meal seems strangely boring; slush fills the street, and the passers-by are dressed in slightly spotted reds. Their faces are surly, and the Vagabond is ruminating futility...
...year of Eliot's election. Disturbed by a sense of impending change and a feeling of uncertainty, the Overseers delayed for five months before allowing the Corporation to proceed to the election of a president. Even after the Corporation had named Eliot, the Overseers, uneasy at the prospect of a scientific man in the president's chair, held up confirmation for more than a month...
...After Dictator Josef V. Stalin, the starving Russians most hate George Bernard Shaw for his accounts of their plentiful food. . . . There is insufficient feed and many peasants are too weak to work on the land and the future prospect seems blacker than the present. The peasants no longer trust their government and the change in the taxation policy came too late...