Word: forecastings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Figuring that Green will be set to go, a forecast of the points gives Harvard somewhat near 55 points. This is probably more than they are set to get on paper, but in every meet they've run this year, the Harvard team has piled up more points than they were being picked for. The time has come to stand firm, and say Harvard will win easily. No more straddling...
...taken with a little salt. Readers will be considerably baffled to know how this U. S. investigator, who speaks only English and German, managed to evoke such dangerous confidences from the most illiterate classes in Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia through interpreters. Author Spivak is a shade too ready to forecast the collapse of tyrannies, to overestimate the potency of the rebellious spirit. His book is valuable as a document of a kind that rarely emerges from the censored murk of dictatorship...
...fallacious system of entrance examinations and the dawning of a day when the general development of a student at his preparatory school will be accepted as a major factor in determining his fitness for admission. This day will undoubtedly come, and it can be safely forecast that the recent action of the Faculty Council has done much to speed the approach of that not too distant and highly desirable...
...Church last week these, with the aid of four Orthodox priests, consecrated Samuel David. With his gilt-&-scarlet crown firmly on his swart head, Archbishop David thereupon waited for the Patriarch of Antioch to grant him jurisdiction, to which he felt canonically entitled. Failing that, a schism was forecast among confused U. S. Syrians...
Then the U. S. Crop Reporting Board dampened all this market bearishness more effectively than rain had dampened Kansas. Predicting that 21% of all acreage sown last autumn would be abandoned, it forecast a winter wheat crop of only 493,000,000 bu. for 1936,60,000,000 bu. more than was harvested in lean 1935 but far below the 618.000,000 bu. average for the five preceding years...