Word: prophetizer
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...inside of a tiger cage, France last week held its first election since Gaston Doumergue took over the Premiership during the bloody riots which followed the Stavisky disclosures (TIME. Feb. 19). At stake were local provincial offices everywhere except in Paris. Month or so ago any political prophet would have said that the public's never-ceasing indignation at the corruption revealed by the "Stavisky affair" would be the major issue in any French election. But fortnight ago Papa Doumergue, in a drive to push through his proposed reforms of the French Constitution (TIME, Oct. 8), broadcast a new issue...
Dean Miner has not, by any means, been the sole prophet of Dental Medicine in the years since 1840, when the Medical profession rejected the proposal that the two fields be amalgamated. At Harvard, indeed, there have been many tangible instances of cooperation between the two departments since the founding of the Dental School in 1867. But as the first Dean of the Dental School ever to hold both the M.D. and D.M.D. degrees, and as one of the widest awake of his profession during the period which the experience of the war enlightened as to the possibilities of among...
This voice crying in the wilderness in that of L. L. B. Angas, a British financial prophet and weather-man who has the interesting habit of producing periodical manifestoes, predicting with unfailing accuracy important pending events in the world of international finance and commerce. He predicted, some months in advance of the actual date, the rubber market collapse of 1926, the English boom in the fall of 1931, and the world-wide rise in the price of gold shares. Now he is again gambling his reputation, this time with a booklet entitled "The Coming American Boom...
...which those in the throng who knew something of the prophet heaved a great sign of relief and departed with the seer's blessing and welcome upon them. The Yale Daily News...
...indeed was the prophet in a nasty mood, and he rose in his wrath and an old dirty tunic before his new people. And he raised his right arm to silence the mob, and incidentally; to keep the tunic from falling...