Word: oracularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military history is misleading as a result of the authors' deliberate intentions," most of the rest so stereotyped it is useless in determining what happened in any war. The confusion of battle is perpetuated because generals edit the official reports, and "word their orders in such an oracular fashion that victory, if it comes, can be traced to them, while failure, if it befalls," can be blamed on somebody else. To make sense of these bewildering official...
...Senator Dixon of Rhode Island. For eleven more he was the New York Tribune's assistant music critic, working with Krehbiel. When Henderson left the Times in 1902 he proposed Aldrich as his successor. Until 1924, when failing health made Aldrich write more sparingly, his articles, as oracular as Henderson's, proved the wisdom of the choice...
Calvin the oracular...
...original cat that inhabited the old Toronto Stock Exchange was a tabby named Scrammy. From 1929 to 1934 she kittened twice, presaging two mining stock booms. Scrammy disappeared and was replaced a year ago by a tomcat named Mick, who so far has manifested no oracular qualities...
...loan is repaid in regular instalments, the borrower pays about 17% for the money that he actually uses. But that is better than the 42% of personal finance companies and a far cry from the loan shark to whom the sky is no limit. Last week the genial, oracular founder of Morris Plan Banks released a bigger & better Morris bank plan...