Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mustache in a certain way, while the Hindu does not. The Hindu wears a wisp of long hair on the top of his head; if he is of high caste, he adorns himself with the 'sacred thread' and a mark on his head; the followers of the Prophet wisely dispense with these accretions...
TIME'S account of the fall of Singapore, especially the paragraphs headed "Whose fault?" certainly makes Hendrik Willem van Loon out to be a prophet...
...prophecies in this anthology range from bright to dark, from inspired vision to inspired foresight. There are prophecies for every pocketbook, every human hope, dream, fear. The most magnificent prophets are still the Jews. This book contains much of Isaiah and Ezekiel, the Book of Revelation complete. Eighty pages are devoted to modish Michael Nostradamus, whose double-talk may or may not predict Hess's flight, Hitler's downfall. St. Odile predicts the end of the Germans-unless she is predicting the end of the Mohammedans, a more pressing danger in the 7th Century. "America's greatest...
...came ever closer to India Prophet Gandhi...
Describing himself "not as a prophet but as one who has talked with prophets," Editor Oursler once got Liberty circulation to 2,700,000 with the Emil Ludwig series on Roosevelt, in 1936 bought a prophetic story written by a then pulp writer named George Fielding Eliot in which the U.S. Fleet is crippled in a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. But Editor Oursler does not point with pride to Liberty's classic embarrassment in printing a lead article shortly after Pearl Harbor which began: "Hawaii is ready...