Word: omened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happiness reached a vivid, lyric pinnacle when he was married in the Catholic church, in front of all the island, to his love, Marama (Dorothy Lamour). He did not understand her nightmare a few nights later when she dreamt of a high wind and birds flying away. Its omen seemed to have no bearing on the six-months' jail sentence he drew on his next trip for hitting a white bully in a waterfront saloon...
...manager, is still partial to high-pressure sales-technique. Also partial to good employe relations, he is generally popular with Abbott's 1,639 workers. They are about half as numerous as the rats Abbott always has on hand for experiment. Last week it was perhaps a good omen for Abbott's stock issue that a rat named Friday 5 #3 gave birth to 18 young, an Abbott record...
Gardner said that the visible strengthening of the Chinese government during recent years has almost daily reduced Japan's chances of success in any trial of arms. Chinese resistance at Shanghal in 1932 was already an ill omen for Japanese aspiration of the continent. The repection of 1936 of Japanese demands for an advisory and supervisory position in relation to the Chinese army and government showed that China was aware of its growing power...
Taken alone, a general decline in commodity prices is a black, bearish, omen, for in the long run it indicates a dwindling world demand for goods. The present decline, however, seemed to be more of a temporary readjustment after manufacturers had been scared into overbuying early this year, both by fear of further rises and by fear of strike stoppages. For no unmanageable surpluses overhang markets, and if goods continue to go into consumption at close to the present rate, manufacturers may soon use up the materials they have on hand...
...alarming progression, starting with 40 for the Class of '37, 25 hopefuls from '38, 16 from '39, and a paltry dozen from '40. Yesterday's 17 may mark the rounding of depression's corner, and the more superstitions members of the managerial staff even heralded it as all omen of major football victories this fall...