Word: augured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Captain Fred Moseley failed to show his fine form of last year, George Ford and George Roberts turned in performances that augur well for the Crimson fortunes. Russ Allen, paired with Traff Hicks at defense, did the ablest checking of the evening...
...well-rounded group of returning veterans seems to augur success for the Crimson in the coming natatorial wars. Almost every event will boast experienced representatives. Captain Richard T. Fisher '36 in the backstroke, together with John J. Colony '37, Robert G. Heskett '37, and George W. Shepherd '36 in the sprints should be fairly consistent winners. In the distances Wallace E. Howell '36 and Arthur G. Jameson '37 are available. Good diving should be ensured by Henry K. Fittz '36 and Bernard F. Merriam '36; and Bertram S. Wolfson '36 with Warren H. White '36 appear to be the pick...
Flim-Flam? Indications were that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin may advise His Majesty to spring the election even sooner than has been expected, perhaps on Nov. 14. In this connection astute "Augur" (Vladimir Poliakoff), a correspondent close to Mr. Baldwin, cabled with remarkable candor...
...reputable correspondent to cable openly from London that His Majesty's Government are engaged in flim-flamming the British public with a Geneva sideshow which the Government already consider a failure, was enough to make all right-thinking Anglo-Saxons hope fervently that "Augur" may be wrong...
This week the unusually well-informed London Correspondent Augur* insisted that at Geneva last week Sir Samuel Hoare told Premier Laval that "the British Government was ready to admit that the [Anglo-German] naval pact, or rather the method of its conclusion, had been regrettable and would prefer that it had not happened." This extraordinary statement, though entirely undercut in British fashion by its qualifying clause, seemed to mark the first admission by His Majesty's Government that in countersigning Adolf Hitler they may have historically blundered. The air having been cleared by this revelation, the British and French Governments...