Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white stone mansion at 18th street and Massachusetts avenue, is now occupied by His Highness Prince Albert de Ligne. One morning last month His Highness was shocked, enraged, at the sight of a splurgy front-page story in the Washington Post in which his recall to Belgium was "definitely forecast." The newspaper said...
...even break between receipts and expenditures. By December, when President Coolidge sent his budget to Congress, he had discovered a timorous little surplus of 37 millions peeping up at him. By March it had risen to 50 millions. Last week Mr. McCoy, anonymously, of course, revised his figures and forecast a surplus of 100 millions on June...
What Mr. McCoy had failed to forecast was the 1928 "bull" market, with a tax-paying public enriched by speculation...
...official weather forecast indicates that fair weather will at last allow the Crimson baseball forces to open their home season after three enforced postponements. A few hours of sunshine, according to Dennis Enright, ground-keeper of Soldiers Field, will put the diamond in shape for this afternoon's contest between Harvard and Bates, which is scheduled to start at 4 o'clock...
Great was the rejoicing in the wake of this forecast by the cherry trees' public custodian. Last summer the heavens had opened to pour upon Potomac Park a deluge of almost Biblical proportions. For days the cherry tree roots had stood in rotting slime. Their leaves browned, fell off. They were, apparently, dead. But now they had come alive again and were ready to draw multitudes of spring visitors to Washington to gaze in gabbling ecstasy. Great, among Washington's hotelmen and shopkeepers, was the name of Grant who fostered this renaissance...