Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Legion. Would the Legion, with its 936,000 members, also plump for immediate payment of the Bonus? It seemed certain to do so. Would wrathful legionaries also succeed in having the convention censure President Hoover for his treatment of the B. E. F? It seemed likely. The prospect sent cold chills up & down the spines of the Republican high command...
...farewell editorial the publishers explained: ". . . The prospect of the paper's making a profit still seems remote after more than a year of operating at a loss. The capitalist system being one under which a profit must be made by any enterprise that is to keep its head above water, we are forced to call off the fight in this case...
Howard Phillips, innocent of crime, is brought into the deathhouse as an electrocution prospect. The other convicts, introverts all, reflect on life as they await their turns in the chair. As in the play, the cell lights flicker and dim when the current is turned into the chair. Phillips swoons, mentally recapitulates his conviction. Preston Foster is the tough convict who leads the move by which the convicts capture the guards, barricade themselves inside the deathhouse. Bargaining for their liberty they execute the guards one by one. Meanwhile, radio policemen outside are chasing a set of gangsters...
...hundredweight price ten times higher than the cost of a bushel of corn. Corn on the Iowa farm last week was selling at 20-21¢ a bushel while hogs on the farm brought $4.25, or twice as much as usual. Only thing that disturbed farmers was the prospect of a rise in corn prices. Rain sent the corn stalks much beyond the established "knee high by Fourth of July" tradition, but the same rain has made ploughing hard, weeds abundant...
...more expensive lower rooms consequently went untenanted. The University scarcely asked too much for what it offered; it simply launched the Plan on a scale of living which taxed the undergraduate pocketbook too severely. Fortunately, however, it has belatedly reduced excessively high food charges; and there is every prospect that during the summer the Corporation will respond to undergraduate pressure by reducing room rents...