Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...downpour, however, having seen its victims definitely wedged each in his own Sitz bath, had started in to do a little constructive drenching, the laugh was shed gently from the oilcloth shoulders of the proletariat onto the sogginess of mackintosh and rubber-silk rainster. It is not hard to predict that another such a day will see the covering of mother's kitchen table going at a premium and linoleum lap-robes across the knees of the elite...
...difficult to predict the performance of the Harvard team as these eleven men have never started together before. But each man has given ample proof of his ability individually in previous games, and Eastman, Dunker, Grew, Hammond, Spalding and Gordon have all won their letters in previous years...
...declares buttermilk to be an alcoholic beverage, of necessity is a jackass statute." That the country and Congress would vote Dry-except for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. That "Governor Pinchot [page 5] has endeared himself to the hardware trade with his talk of padlocks [for saloon doors]. I predict there will be a boom in that commodity in the Keystone State." Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama is the only Democratic candidate whose boom for the Presidential nomination is openly and actively under way. His enterprising political manager issued an "Underwood map" of the U. S., in which...
Among other casualties were Greenough, Kernan, Spalding, and Eastman none of whom participated in today's scrimmage. This fact, coupled with the injury of Howe makes it impossible to predict as yet the lineup for Saturday's game...
Record car loadings of early Summer led some to predict much larger net earnings for the railroads. Stock market prices have not, however, advanced to an important extent, and now, as the company statements for July are made public, the reason has become apparent. Although the gross business of the roads as a rule reflects their record volume of traffic, higher expenses here prevented any great growth of net earnings, and in some cases even decreased them. The purchase of new equipment as well as the lasting effects of the shopmen's strike have more than offset the increased...