Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horace Austin Warner Tabor is well remembered. "Haw" Tabor was born in 1830. He grew up in Vermont, went to work for and married the shrewish daughter of a Maine stonecutter. Heading West, young Tabor and his wife farmed in Kansas for a few years, then pushed on to prospect for gold in Colorado. Haw Tabor took to running a general store. In return for $64 worth of supplies, two German silver-diggers gave him a one-third interest in anything they found. His share turned out to be worth more than $1,000,000. Tabor acquired a better mine...
...popular pressure to transform it into legislation, so dawdling is every "lame duck" session and so determined is President Hoover to use his veto on Democratic ideas with which he disagrees that a special session next April is widely viewed as a certainty. 73rd Speakership- Such a prospect gives added importance to the present House session where already a heated Democratic campaign is in progress for the Speakership of the 73rd Congress. The wise eyes of Washington are fixed less upon the routine legislation of this session than upon the adroit pulling and hauling of candidates for Speaker. The Democrat...
...purpose of the solicitation and give the essential facts. . . . Second, to be able to state what the gifts of other people are. Each one of us likes to know what other people in our group, or our kind, are doing. And third, to state what the solicitor hopes the prospect will give. . . . Don't tell your prospect what you actually think, yourself, he will give. Tell him very in directly and without too much emphasis what you hope he will give. It has always been very helpful to me, on both sides of the picture, to use that technique...
...headquarters of the Foundation are now located next to the Peabody Museum, and in the event that the consolidation is put through, there is no prospect that its location will be changed. The most important aspect of a decision on the part of the University to take over the Foundation would be an increase in the amount of funds available for the production of films and for original research in photography for educational purposes...
...those who realized the chaotic situation into which the economic nationalism of the post-war decade had plunged the world, the proposal last spring for a comprehensive economic and monetary conference seemed to offer a prospect of a return to some more endurable kind of normalcy. Beginning with the demand of the United States that war debts and particular tariff policies be barred from the agenda, that prospect has slowly dwindled, until the conference and its chances of success are now clouded in uncertainty...