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Word: prophetize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hand, etc.-alive in many a boy's heart; but he was also a great and serious artist on canvas and in mural decoration. Pyle was born in Wilmington, Del., in 1853, and lived there until his death in 1911. He knew the satisfaction of being an honored prophet in his own community. To his home flocked students, for he was an inspired teacher who taught for love of it, and many of our best American illustrators were among his prot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Good Books: Nov. 19, 1923 | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

...prophecies of various business groups. Some manufacturers are stoutly insisting in public that the stock market no longer accurately discounts the future, while privately they are trimming their sales for 1924. Most merchants, whose sales have not yet started to decline, apparently foresee limitless prosperity ahead. A prophet of a different sort is Leonard P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Co., whose predictions as to the trend of business have in recent years proved so accurate and courageous that his remarks are always worth listening to. His mouthpiece, the fortnightly bulletin of the Cleveland Trust, now expresses its opinion that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Current Situation: Oct. 29, 1923 | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

...seen in the serious attempt to discover the wants of the colonies through increasingly important Imperial Conferences and tours of inspection by princes and ministers. The latest, that of erecting a protective wall about the commerce of the empire, may with the others, realize the dreams of Kipling, the prophet of Imperialism, for a great sister-hood of English-speaking peoples-a practical League of Nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREATER BRITAIN | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

...actual engineering work in outside businesses, trips to industrial districts, research at the Marine Biological Station. The ingredients are not all original. Our American experimental schools inspired by Dewey, Wirt and others, have many of them. But the ensemble as Sanderson shaped it was unique. And Wells is his prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sanderson of Oundle | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

With the eyes of a prophet Mr. Adams saw that the tendency carried with it grave defects and argued from the condition in America and the gradual spread of democracy in England that Oxford and Cambridge themselves must in time bow their heads to the "gods of efficiency and utility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EFFICIENCY AND UTILITY | 10/4/1923 | See Source »

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