Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miners' Executive, headed by the extremist A. J. Cook, decided to fight the reduction of pay and declined to consider an eight-hour working day. Questions were asked in the House of Commons where Premier Baldwin, admitting the seriousness of the outlook, said it was the policy of his Government not to interfere in the dispute until absolutely necessary. It was evident, however, that both the miners and their employers were anxious to avoid a strike and the possibility of Government intervention...
...paradox, there is always an explanation. Little more than 19 years ago, Princess Victoria of Battenberg (now called Mountbatten) was married to King Alfonso. The young Queen, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of Britain, it is true, changed her religion, but she did not change her outlook on life so easily. To Madrid she carried a number of Anglo-Saxon prejudices that clashed sharply with Romance culture. If Spanish society did not please her, she closed her eyes to it. If certain grandees by their empty verbosity bored her, she heard as little as possible. But from bullfighting there...
...Only once during the four years had the outlook seemed hopeless. That was in the spring of the senior year. The city in which I had been teacing night school ran temporarily out of funds and I could not collect my salary. I had purchased a supply of paper for a printing job which failed me, and a late spring kept snow on the ground so that carfares ate up my earnings as fast as I received them. One morning, as I went to classes, I spent my last cent on carfare. I wore two rubbers for the left foot...
...remains now to tell of the relations of the students who come to Geneva among themselves, of how young men and women from many lands meet and mingle in friendship and mutual understanding. Surely the value of such contacts, both in broadening the outlook of the students themselves and in establishing the foundations of future international peace need not be argued here...
...Recognizing that 'the boy is father to the man,' it [the Scout organization] has produced better men by affording a good outlook and a helpful discipline to the boys. With a membership of 750,000 the Scout organization is an army in preparation for the best performance of highest civic duties...