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Word: outlooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said President Roosevelt in his message to the 78th Congress: "I do not prophesy when this war will end". Said Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson: "On all fronts the outlook is favorable, but the situation does not justify extreme optimism. The German and Japanese forces have suffered relatively few major reverses. We would do very well not to overlook the offensive capabilities that still are theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Qualified Hope | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

Even when the outlook was blackest, short, cocky William S. Jack always knew everything would turn out all right. The worst was nine months ago when the profit-probing Vinson committee rooted out the fantastic salaries and bonuses of Jack & Heintz Inc., catapulted President Jack smack into the biggest and juiciest profit scandal of the year. But last week the scandal was forgotten, and upstart J. & H. was riding high as the world's largest maker of aviation starters and automatic pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION,RAILROADS: Jack Out of the Box | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...outlook is indeed dark for all minorities when the rights granted them in the Atlantic Charter are now being destroyed in a token suppression in vital India. The situation becomes grave when the realization that this selfsame "old order" element at work in London clubs and chambers will yield perhaps the most important single influence at the conferences that will determine the new order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wartime Tory | 12/1/1942 | See Source »

Last week General Lear urged his commanders to "kill the academic and unimaginative outlook ... so to train their subordinates that they are physically and emotionally prepared for the realities of war. . . . We will not find any Japanese in the southwestern Pacific who will permit us to go along with our eyes closed, our guns unloaded and our weapons buried beneath a mass of bedding rolls." He illustrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Lessons of the Cumberland | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...thought you were a man , and just wanted to ask you a few questions," he went boldly ahead. "I've been disillusioned five successive times by my B.P.A.'s, and have decided that it is about time to do something about it. After all, it takes a man's outlook to appreciate business problems, and I don't think girls can possibly...

Author: By Harry NEWMAN G. b. and Lawrence WHEELER G.b., S | Title: Business School Girl Graders Deny Claims of Injustice | 10/15/1942 | See Source »

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