Word: prescient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scream to end the play. Oddity of Air Raid is that, in spite of the fact that the situation is a straight projection of last month's Czechoslovakian crisis, when a man listened for war at his loudspeaker like a frightened bellboy at a murderer's keyhole, prescient Poet MacLeish began it in the spring, rewrote it in August...
...that hole and three at the next, where Guldahl again went into the water. But the way Guldahl played at Augusta convinced Sportswriter O. B. Keeler that his defeat was not due to lack of either courage or technique. Adding one more to its string of lucky or prescient articles (TIME, May 24), the Saturday Evening Post last week carried a biography of Golfer Guldahl written two months ago by Sportswriter Keeler, which, if bookmakers at Oakland Hills had been sophisticated journalists, might well have caused them to shorten their Guldahl odds of 10-to-1. The article ended...
...Another salute to the prescient Sinclair Lewis! Arrowsmith, published in 1925, describes Dr. Holabird's iatrocracy about as follows: ". . . would rule, coordinate, standardize and make useful the whole world of intelligence, from trousers-designing to poetry...
...They apparently had us on the run a short time ago, but I am glad to see that now, all over the country, Republicans are plucking up courage and are back on the firing line." Such were the words, prescient of Democratic defeat, spoken at the East Side High School at Paterson, N. J., by Republican Walter Evans Edge who, as a U. S. Senator (1919-29) used to flap his elbows up & down like a buzzard in flight every time he made a speech. Date of the utterance: a fortnight before that November day in 1932 when Franklin Roosevelt...
...Englishman is a clever and unscrupulous hypocrite; a man who, with superhuman ingenuity and foresight, is able in some miraculous manner to be always on the winning side; a person whose incompetence in business and salesmanship is balanced by an uncanny and unfair mastery of diplomatic wiles; a coldblooded, prescient, ruthless opportunist; a calculating and conceited egoist; a cad with occasional instincts for that strange indulgence for which they have no word in their own language, and which they designate by our own expression, 'fair play...