Word: forecastings
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Triple Play. Palestine is to be partitioned as forecast (see map) into a Jewish State, a British Mandate over the Holy Places, and an Arab State. First thing to notice and recall is that the Palestine Mandated Territory ("Palestine") and the Trans-Jordan Mandated Territory ("Trans-Jordan") are both held by Britain under one and the same mandate from the League. Thus, in a sense, the "frontier" between Palestine and Trans-Jordan has been anomalous, and this anomaly the British Cabinet now propose to sweep away, making a single political unit out of Trans-Jordan and the portion of Palestine...
Since Aeschylus the Theatre's incipient collapse has been frequently forecast and occasionally, as in England from Sheridan to Pinero, the Theatre has been prostrate for long periods. While realistic observers at the Astor did not consider the U. S. Theatre's case hopeless, nevertheless the fact that as many as 1,000 people, most of whose livelihoods stem from the stage, should formally assemble to consider its condition, indicated a state of affairs grave indeed...
With so many brain children, all of sparkling intelligence, hatched by the minds of those who best understand the Law School and its needs, it would appear undisputedly accurate to forecast a fine beginning for the Landis regime in September. Yet it is to be hoped that Mr. Landis will not mar such a promising start by further intemperate public statements on current questions. If he curbs his vigorous tongue, the zealous reforming attitude displayed by him, combined with the innovations in the curriculum, presage a long period of prosperity for the Harvard Law School...
Effect of the legislation would have been to bar from Ohio whiskeys distilled in such big producing States as Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland and Pennsylvania; brandies from California and New York; rum from Massachusetts. Upon hearing English-educated Mr. Morgan's distasteful forecast, Ohio's legislators killed the measure...
Stopping its fashion studies just short of an autumn forecast, the B.I.S. dolefully predicted that gold-laden lands like the U. S. and Britain "will presumably continue to be faced with the task of absobing large and increasing amounts of new gold, and the continuation of the policy of sterilization will involve them in ever increasing expenses...