Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Germans, the prospect for an offensive might seem more promising. But, by any modern process of calculation, their margin of superiority in numbers is not enough to support that promise. So far as can be gauged, only the introduction of some radically new weapon, or extraordinarily bad generalship on the Allies' side, could give them any chance of real success...
Coach Ulen's squad is faced with the appalling prospect of having practically no chance of overcoming the Eli aggregation. At the same time it is confronted with the formidable task of giving the Blue their toughest battle of the season...
Moderate Indian nationalist opinion and Mr. Gandhi were obviously on the run. In prospect, unless the British talked very fast and convincingly, were the bad times...
...little prospect was there of cutting out this cancer and preventing its spread to foreign areas, that last week, after six back-to-the-wall years on the Municipal Council, which also had to triple its $1,000,000 budget last week to keep pace with the stumbling Chinese dollar, Council Chairman Cornell S. Franklin announced his intention of resigning. Cornell Franklin hails from Mississippi, home State of Author William Faulkner (who is married to Cornell Franklin's first wife). A good sport and a fighting gentleman, Cornell Franklin has transplanted the South-mint juleps, hunting dogs, polo...
This is a typical howdy-do from Uncle Sam Calling, eight-week radio series now planted on 662 U. S. radio stations by the U. S. Census Bureau. Many a censusee does not like the prospect of being asked, and having to answer, a raft of Nosy Parker questions: whether he has a bathroom, a mortgage; where he lived five years ago (for an insight into migrant labor), his race (which most anthropologists say is unanswerable), whether he has been on WPA, CCC, NYA, etc. For the first time in history, the April census will also ask the "amount...