Word: unforeseen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fruits, vegetables. Trading in futures (raw silk, rubber, cocoa, not yet harvested) permits the producer and buyer to protect himself against unforeseen crop disasters. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange offers this hedging-by-speculation privilege in butter and eggs only. Last week its members considered new commodity admissions-other milk products, vegetables, fruits, canned foods. Cheesemakers, potato and apple growers, canners would, they argued, enjoy the financial protection against plant and animal scourges. Chicago commodity brokers would, obviously, enjoy increased commissions...
...finale of Act I was a hopeless bungle, due to an awkward set that forced the ecclesiastical procession into the body of the church, an amateur chorus, a green Scarpia (Lawrence Tibbett), the lack of an organ and the sluggish conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying...
...thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness." But President Lowell made opening acknowledgement of the verity that what seems right at one time and meets the apparent approval of the conscience, "the light of the body" that is the eye, often leads to results unforeseen, undesired, and incompatible with the aims of the individual...
...situation here at Princeton is a complicated one in that the clubs have two functions. They are eating clubs and they are social clubs. It was seen as early us 1908 that the clubs had developed in unforeseen manner and with no controlling influence. If Princeton authorities made no efforts to provide proper food or proper surroundings for students but merely furnished classrooms and faculty, the problem would hardly be one for discussion. The eating clubs would be entirely independent and a law unto themselves...
While it will be the general policy on the Economics department to put the students absolutely upon their own resources during the Reading Period, a sufficient number of professors and tutors will be available for conferences, so that the work of no student should be hampered because of unforeseen difficulties...