Word: omened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jealous insistence of the press on the justice and liberality of Harvard's action, and its insistance that this action does not imply any dogmatic bias is a good omen for the future of liberal universities in this country...
...Good luck is already assured," radioed Captain Inouye from the Hiyei. "We have sighted the propitious omen of two Japanese cranes, apparently emigrating to Manchukuo...
...nothing new, of course, for the Dramatic Club to be producing dramas, and yet it is a distinctly new and refreshing omen that the Dramatic Club has recovered from its psycho-neurotic obsession that has been tormenting us for at least the last two years. For these last two horrible years we have come out of a Dramatic Club performance with a self-conscious feeling of inferiority in matters of comprehension...
Macedonia, always a hotbed of intrigue with an indescribably mixed population, is now the storm center of the civil war. Bulgaria, deprived of a Mediterranean port after the World War, is hovering over the afflicted territory like a bird of ill-omen. Turkey, Jugoslavia, and Italy undoubtedly would not resist taking a morsel of Greece if it were dangled before their eyes. The one hope that Greece has of setting her affairs without interference and loss is to enlist British support. The British watchdog, with a sentimental interest since Byron and a commercial interest antedating that, has already growled...
...blood of St. Januarius usually occurs 18 times a year. Sometimes the solid mass in the vial changes to a red fluid in two minutes. Never does it take longer than an hour. The success of last week's exposition led Neapolitans to interpret it as a good omen for the birth of the daughter born to the Crown Prince and Princess of Italy...