Word: forecastings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first-hand knowledge of his town. He is a connoisseur of people, especially fantastic ones, and seeks them out as the late J. P. Morgan sought rare old snuff-boxes." He has journalistic premonitions which stand him in good stead. "He is practically a whippoorwill in his ability to forecast death, especially the death of an eminent citizen." Generally considered Manhattan's most colorful as well as ablest city editor. Stanley Walker fulfills the first requisite of a Manhattanite by having been born elsewhere (on a Texas ranch), its second by living outside Manhattan (at Great Neck, L.I., where...
Should stabilization be announced and a return to a gold basis authoritatively forecast, there would be an instantaneous change for the better. Even an issue of $3,000,000,000 or more of bonds would be accepted as within the government's credit capacity for the profit on gold held by the Treasury would enable the Federal Government to issue large sums of money which would have back of it a metallic reserve instead of an empty promise...
Should stabilization be announced and a return to a gold basis authoritatively forecast, there would be an instantaneous change for the better. Even an issue of $3,000,000,000 or more of bonds would be accepted as within the government's credit capacity for the profit on gold held by the Treasury would enable the Federal Government to issue large sums of money which would have back of it a metallic reserve instead of an empty promise...
...first signs of a new cycle-vigorous black splotches in the neighborhood of 30° north and south latitude, with magnetic polarities reversed in respect to the spots of the dying cycle. They had been looking for months, might have looked for months more (for sunspot changes cannot be forecast like eclipses) had not Dr. Seth Barnes Nicholson of Mt. Wilson Observatory reported two heralds of the sunspot upturn, slyly adding that he saw a first and fainter one a month ago. Sunspots seem to be whirlwinds-the mouths of spiral disturbances arising from below the surface. Hot gases emerging...
...year of American revolution and federal change, must be supplanted by zealous examination of the college structure. Somebody at Dartmouth had to find out what the falsities of that structure are and to open thereby the way for radical changes that the administration and the undergraduates separately forecast...