Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME offered (and offers) no apology for having pre-estimated for each & every member of the Hoover Cabinet the likelihood of their becoming "Yes Men" to their busy Chief...
...sleeps in the bedroom which was the headquarters of his early dream-world. He dreams; his beloved Sally is there as always. In the morning he finds his "beauteous maiden" seated on the garden wall, so romantically like the dream that he renounces his career, and the high likelihood of the Prime Minister's portfolio, resolved at last to grasp the romance which his youth promised. He returns to London to bring his affairs to a close, and the reader may guess whether success closes in on him again...
...Harvard season. The starting backfield is still shrouded beneath a veil of mystery. Putnam and Harper seem certain of posts. T. W. Gilligan and Huguley were teamed with the above pair on the first string backfield yesterday afternoon. This is a possible starting quartet, but there is little likelihood of this combination's going into action together. Gilligan has a very good chance of remaining with Putnam and Harper, but that is pure speculation. Who would replace Huguley under these conditions is a wide open question...
...When a sailor can tell a passenger 'your life boat is to the right' or 'to the left,' as the case may be, it will be a long step toward preventing the likelihood of panic. Moreover, when a man knows how to swim he is much less likely to be scared out of his wits when a ship is in danger." Declaring that his own Lloyd Sabaudo Line had at once begun to teach their crews English and aquatics, Dr. Serrati intimated that all the major Italian carriers would at once follow suit. "Our crews...
Small though the likelihood is that such a short-sighted view should ever be forced upon British statesmen-who know the strategic value of the land of Palestine quite apart from that of the people-the issue of whether a great deal more money should be spent at once to protect Palestine Jews was sharply raised in London by-hard-featured, scrubby-bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann, shrewd president of the World Zionist Organization. After an interview with Minister of Colonies and Mandates Baron Passfield (famed in his former style as Economist Sidney Webb), Dr. Weizmann gave correspondents to understand that...