Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany after the War. In that event Guam will lie in the thick of the Japanese maneuvers as a possible target for simulated attack. Japanese warships will be operating on the direct route between Manila and Honolulu. Vice Admiral Osumi tried to soothe U. S. alarm at such a prospect...
...Dearborn, Louisville, Denver, Windsor, Ont., Chester, Pa. and many another city some 100,000 men who work for Henry Ford went last week to their jobs of assembling his 1933 models, planned for display within the fortnight. Ahead of them lay the comforting prospect of many months of steady employment. But the week had not run out before notices were posted on Ford bulletin boards announcing a temporary shutdown...
Quick to cry out against "the interests," the Hearstpapers filled whole pages with layouts attacking Bonner & Griffith and the Power Commission. Sample headlines: "Angry Woman Throws Eggs and Hits Power Trust"; "Power Trust Keeps Government Employes Good Boys by Prospect of Promoting the Faithful to Good Jobs...
...Soong asked Chinese patriots to buy $5,600,000 worth of lottery tickets, promised to pay lucky patriots exactly half this sum in lottery prizes totaling $2,800,000. Of the Government's profit half will go "to purchase airplanes and for the building of roads." Such a prospect so vexed the Japanese war office that U. S. Ambassador Grew was again forced to deny U. S. connivance...
...Lowell has also referred often to "the stranglehold of the Ph. D." on education. To loosen it at Harvard he announced last week a "Society of Fellows -24 young men who will spend three years in comfortable study, free of any academic regulation and lured by no prospect of credits or degrees. Graduates of any college, aged 25 or younger, they will be known as "Junior Prize Fellows," appointed and supervised by seven "Senior Fellows" among whom will, ex-officio, be the university president. The Junior Prize Fellows will live in Harvard houses, use Harvard facilities, commingle socially, receive free...