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Word: proph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Gasset admits, anything today rather than philosophers, this penetrating analysis of the world's state is not economic. No fatalist, Ortega y Gasset, searcher for the truth about Western civilization, believes that something may still be done with the truth when it is found. A yea-saver, his gloomiest proph ecy is still hopeful in a sardonic Spanish way: ''Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or some thing to take command, to impose an occupation, a duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Today's Tyrant | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...Most contralto roles are secondary. Contralto Matzenauer was perturbed because the Metropolitan management would not revive for her Samson et Dalila and Le Prophète, two of the few operas with contralto leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Matzenauer Out | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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