Word: forecastings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend Joe Forecast in the Press Box last Saturday and we had a little talk about the week's games. I'm afraid the old boy, whose mind is a bit weak these days, may have influenced me by his sentimental appeals to his former "greatness." He used to be considered great until people realized the power of oriental methods in prognosticating, no doubt about that...
...anyway in considering the following verdicts you may as well keep in mind that the infallibility of Huey is mixed with the human qualities of Forecast. The latter influence is probably no stronger than the bitters in a gin and bitters, but few will deny that bitters affect the taste if not the result. Therefore don't be surprised at small variations; the grand effect reflects the gin influence, unmistakably. Harvard 42 Virginia 0 Yale 13 Dartmouth 7 Holy Cross 7 Brown 14 Cornell 14 Columbia 6 N. Y. U. 27 Oregon 7 Michigan 27 Princeton 0 Penn 7 Lafayette...
...with the fundamentals and definitions of his subject. ("A short sale is nothing but a contract to deliver stock in the future.") He quoted the historic decision of the Supreme Court of the U. S., written by Liberal Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1905: "People will endeavor to forecast the future and to make agreements according to their prophecy. Speculation of this kind by competent men is the self-adjustment of society to the probable. . . . This court has upheld sales of stock for future delivery...
...annual music festival of Worcester, Mass, wider publicity than the pedantic excellence of the affair has normally enjoyed during its 72 years. One episode might have been anticipated, for when the name of Percy Aldridge ("Country Gardens") Grainger appears on a program it is more than likely to forecast a performance out of the commonplace. The second episode concerned German Soprano Editha Fleischer, especially imported to be leading soloist in the Festival's lastnight program...
There is, however, nothing mysterious to Signor Bendandi's forecasts. Some 30,000 quakes ruffle the earth yearly. Patient men have compiled world catalogs of recognized quakes, viz., R. Mallet's Catalogue of Recorded Earthquakes (1606 B.C.-A.D. 1842), J. Milne's A Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes (A.D. 1-1899). Others have brought the records up to date. Out of the records analysts have been able to decipher two groups of periodicity in earthquakes. In one group vigorous quakes occur once a year, faint ones every day. In the other group trifling temblors occur every 21 minutes...