Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other Cabinet changes were forecast...
...wheat forecast made on June 1 each year by the Department of Agriculture is of course an estimate only, and sometimes a quite faulty one at that. Nevertheless, it usually indicates clearly enough prevailing tendencies relating to the new crops. The Government's guess as to the size of the total current crop is only 693 million bushels - less than any other year's back to 1916 and 1917 when the crop was very disappointing. It is evident that the low wheat prices have led to considerable curtailment of the farmers' plantings. This year's cold...
...event of Northern Ireland continuing to refuse to nominate its member on the Boun-'dary Commission. The North was again displeased, apparently because it fears that an unfavorable decision by the Council would be binding. The resignation of Premier Sir James Craig of Northern Ireland was forecast by political observers, but such an event seems hardly likely to help matters. The Manchester Guardian, one of the few British journals that has shown any perspicacity and common sense in commenting upon Irish affairs, said editorially: "We do not understand that there is any serious idea among British jurists that...
...Bolshecrats of Moscow, expecting the fall of Premier Poincare, forecast the early recognition of Sovietland by France. This hope was based on the possible succession of Mr. Edouard Herriot to the French Premiership...
...other two predictions deserve more serious consideration. Both the Harvard and the Yale man have made sincere efforts to forecast the score of today's meet. That their conclusions differ by some 25 points only shows the degree of their college spirit. Each man is going on the assumption that all the men from his college will do better than their best, and that all the men from the rival college will do worse than their worst. That is an unwarranted assumption. In actual competition this afternoon, it is practically certain that some men from each team will fall short...