Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first 50 years of the century could be told in the story and world outlook of one man, and he ends a period-J. Pierpont Morgan. The man who will most influence the next 50 years is . . . Albert Einstein. Beyond that . . . there had best be another Christ, or at least a more far-reaching Gandhi...
...outlook is not so encouraging as it was this stage of the season last year. At that time, Jordan had Dan Ray, Don Louria, and Howie Houston, and these three men were largely responsible for Harvard's going undefeated in its first three matches. However, Ray and Louria were graduated at mid-term and this left a serious dent in Jordan's middle-weight strength. Harvard floundered through the rest of the season using various replacements at their weights and winning only two more matches...
...outlook did not look as good to everyone, notably to Federal Reserve Board Member Marriner S. Eccles. He warned that there was inflationary trouble ahead. Before a congressional subcommittee last week, he ticked off a few signals: consumer credit is now up to $17 billion, almost double what it was at war's end, and the Federal Government is running into the red at the rate of $5.5 billion a year. Too many houses are being built on too slim security, said he, and the new corporation pension plans, which he flatly called "a big mistake," will keep prices...
...long-needed chance for some political reform, and the mayor-elect hoped to oblige. First, he would sweep some 200 Curley appointees out of City Hall, including two of old Jim's sons. "Our city," said Hynes, "needs a new moral tone, a new atmosphere and a new outlook...
Meanwhile, beyond the Midway, other educators chimed in with protests. To John Dewey, the split between Hutchins and himself was "the cleft that now marks every phase and aspect of philosophy. It presents the difference between an outlook that goes to the past for instruction and for guidance, and one that holds that philosophy . . . must pay supreme heed to movements, needs, problems, and resources that are distinctively modern...