Word: omen
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...When I was about eight years of age I was greatly frightened by seeing a snake crawl out from behind some furniture in my room. My cries brought the elders, and they assured me that this appearance of a serpent was a good omen-that it meant I would become strong and great. For a time, in my ignorance, I had a worshipful attitude toward snakes...
...minimum wage. Michel, marveled at his long-lost joie de vivre, remembered his ambitions, and the oath that never would he degenerate to a contemptible liberé, crouched on his empty barrow awaiting a stray commission. But there he was, and there the Guiana vulture, bird of ill omen, flapped in the dust, croaked over dung in the street...
Opening under every kind of auspicious omen, with the beneficent visits of the silent man of Washington and the Lone Eagle hardly a month away, the Sixth Pan-American Congress at Havana has so far discussed two points of importance in the western hemisphere, and has reached a deadlock on both points. The Pan-American method of settling such deadlocks amicably for both sides is a happy one. The matter is first threshed out around the conference table. After two, sometimes three days of eulogy, defamation and near duelling, the matter is put into the hands of a sub-committee...
...called to Mr. W. C. Lane's article on the ways and means by which the College Library intends to cope with the increased demands made on it by the Reading Period. The mention of special rooms where one may find books relating to related courses is one good omen; the fact that books may be drawn therefrom for a limited period is another. Should the students show as much cooperation as has the Library one peril of the Period will be successfully...
...great university placing his opinions on this vital matter before the members of another university. The institutions of higher learning should exercise a strong influence over the public mind in matters of public concern, and such an example of the cooperation of educational leaders presents an excellent omen for the future...