Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conduct the Government at this critical time than his opponent. As a matter of personal pride in his own ability and reward for his honest efforts, no man ever more ardently wanted to be re-elected to office than he, and no hard-working President ever faced a gloomier prospect for such a reward...
...deficit grew so did the prospect that more tax-upping will shortly be in order if the Budget is ever to be balanced. The 1932 Revenue Act, based on Treasury estimates and whipped through Congress amid great excitement, has so far failed to do the trick. Last week's best guess was that the Sales Tax would be resurrected in December...
Although the spirit of the squad was good yesterday, there is little prospect that the team will recover from its injuries soon enough to be in proper condition for the Holy Cross encounter...
...even the prospect of making 600,000 pesetas can quell the mortal dread of the sea which Escudero shares with many another gypsy (TIME, Jan. 25). For him the ocean and all water, he says, is hell. He spent his six days aboard the Aquitania this autumn lying in his cabin in a pair of red silk pyjamas, trembling lest he should die and be thrown overboard for fish to devour. Ashore he soon becomes the soul of assurance again. He wears grey flannel shirts for formal and informal occasions, usually with a tie he has crocheted himself. But last...
...Invitation to the Waltz Authoress Lehmann, with sure and delicate touch, tells a tale of vernal English virginity. Olivia and Kate were sisters, both pretty, but different. Kate was neat, chic, determined; Olivia dowdy and diffuse. Both were beside themselves with breathless ambition at the prospect of Lady Spencer's dance-Olivia's first. Their hard-put-to-it mother had relaxed so far as to let them invite a young Oxonian to escort them. Reggie turned out to be unattractive, unimpressionable; when he announced that he was planning to take Holy Orders the sisters wrote...