Word: portentousness
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...opening event was a portent for the rest of the meet as the Crimson medley relay team beat a Princeton quartet that ranks among the best in the East. Backstrokers Duncan Pyle and Bruce Kone fought almost evenly over their 110-yard segment, but breaststroker Ted Fullerton began to edge away from Tiger Charles Hector...
...play proves to be a very happy choice for the launching of an ambitious new regional theater, the Hartman Theater Company in Stamford, Conn. The troupe is housed in a handsome reconverted movie house, which may be a portent of an increasingly widespread interest in the legitimate theater. Initially, the Hartman plans to put on a seven-play season, and the offerings this year will include The Threepenny Opera, Joan of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson, and the world premiere of a play called The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt...
Women now know better; a thicket of prejudice and privilege remains. Christabel, however, was a portent. As she disentangled herself from the traditional female role, her independence often appeared wayward, willful and puzzling...
...exuberant recovery is supported by reports from businessmen round the country; generally they are pleased with the first signs of revival, though many are impatient for more substantial evidence that activity has picked up. "It looks like a slower than normal recovery," says Chicago Banker Edward Boss. The brightest portent so far is department-and specialty-store sales, which have spurted rapidly in recent weeks. In Boston, Filene's and other stores with fancy boutiques are getting a healthy run from shoppers, many willing to pay up to $75 for a pair of shoes, while such mass merchandisers...
...hopeful portent that TIME poses the issue of capitalism's survival and treats it seriously. But the alternatives of the future are not, as TIME thinks, a flawed but viable bumbling through as against failed socialist schemes. We must choose between the planned, corporate-dominated collectivism that capitalism is jerry-building to deal with its destructive contradictions ("socialism" for the rich) and a humane, democratic, freely created collectivism (socialism for the majority...