Word: omened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studying how to demonstrate, the loud groans of the sinking College came to their ears; and hoping that their example might provoke the rest of the country to an holy emulation in so good a work, and the General Court itself vigorously to act, for the diverting of the omen of calamity, which its destruction would be to New Tangled,' declare that a voluntary collection had been made among the inhabitants which authorized the town to pledge the payment of 'sixty pounds sterling a year for seven years ensuing; to be improved by the Overseers of the College...
Never before had observers seen Franklin Roosevelt go so earnestly to bat for anything. It was an omen that the beginnings of the Supreme Court battle (see col. 2) were but a mild foretaste of what is yet to come. To those who believe Franklin Roosevelt is the shrewdest judge of political trends in the U. S. it meant also that the outcome of the battle is more uncertain than that of any which the New Deal has yet fought...
...good omen in Spain last week that this distressing state of Miaja affairs ended without another such butchery as had already wiped out, in both White and Red territory, some 120,000 innocent non-combatants in Spain's savage, stalemated civil war (TIME, July 27 et seq.). A quiet little deal was arranged by General Miaja through intermediaries with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Of the quid pro quo only half was disclosed. What Franco got was not revealed, though he was rumored to have bought the lives of several prominent Whites; but what General Miaja got was his great...
Although perhaps a trific early for jubilation or hosannas, the news of the presentation of the American peace pact at Buenos Aires comes as a distinct omen for good and warrants further hope that the Pan-American conference will come out with something tangible to its credit. Too often in the past have the hopes of waiting nations been reduced to disillusionment through months of selfish quarrelings and too many times have delegations repacked their luggage to trail home empty-handed. Economic conferences, disarmament conferences, treaty revision conferences, battleship parleys, tariff discussions all have been proposed, all have been acclaimed...
...Harvard Stadium three weeks ago Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy and Harvard Alumnus, wore a necktie striped with the Navy's blue & gold, watched Navy beat Harvard 20-to-13. Thinking the necktie a good omen, he sent it airmail to Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land, Chief of the Bureau of Construction & Repair, who wore it to the Army-Navy game, saw the midshipmen beat the Army...