Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally came to Addis Ababa last week. Early one morning a telephone clerk near Dessye called excitedly to say that a huge flight of Italian planes had passed overhead, evidently headed for the Ethiopian capital. Twenty minutes later a sharp-eyed outlook fired a warning gun from the hilltop by the royal palace. Soon ten planes came over the eastern horizon. Traders and warriors in the town rushed into their compounds, blazed away at the sky with ancient muskets, double-barreled elephant guns, Belgian trade rifles, all with no apparent effect. For 15 minutes the Italian planes circled...
...officials should look wide eyed or askance at this proposal, or feel the stabbings of false conscience. Science, the preachers tell us, can claim too much. A reasonable person cannot expect the food mentors to send Whitings a psychologist to tell when the cows feel contented, or when the outlook for the future sours up. Nobody knows what part of the cud is Cream. But an official taster, specifically selected for a sensitive palate and delicate taste, would not only provide an important mechanical function, that of keeping bad milk off the tables, but would add to the kitchen that...
...Function of the privately endowed university--to introduce educational innovations, to carry on consistent policy, to limit the size of the student body, to disintegrate sectional outlook, to escape political influence which leads to discontinuous policy...
...despite the I.C.C. order, President Clement's outlook on life remained cheerful. The Pennsylvania has paid cash dividends in every year since its formation in 1847. The Pennsylvania System comprises, broadly speaking, about one-tenth of U. S. railroads. It takes in about one-tenth of the total railroad operating income. It operates a little over one-tenth of the total cars and locomotives. Its books carry about one-tenth of the total railroad investment. It handles rather more than one-tenth of total railroad traffic. Like other roads, the Pennsylvania has seen its income, largest of any road...
...forces of materialism which keep prodding an author to 'produce.' Many writers yield to the publishers' request for a second book to meet the demand caused by the popularity of a successful first attempt. The quality of their work usually suffers, their reputation wanes, and their outlook on life becomes warped and caustic...