Word: portending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cloak rooms. There was a short debate and then it was all over, the Wagner Labor Bill had passed, 63-to-12, sped on to the House for action. Industry and the A. F. of L. were left blinking in astonishment. What did the Senate's act portend...
...reduction to a department is expected to result in decreased enrollment, ultimate elimination. Other schools or colleges to be eliminated or consolidated: Music, Home Economics, Fisheries, Fine Arts, Journalism, Library, Nursing. Business Administration. The Deans of Men and Women become "personnel officers." It is felt that these changes portend the end of co-education in Washington...
None of the guests was over 25. Their youth makes their ideas susceptible to a criticism of jejunity. On the other hand, their present ability premises future leadership in their denominations. They may portend the end of a phase of U. S. Protestantism which (vide Bruce Barton) has adapted Christ to contemporary ideals and mores...
Meanwhile political Washington was acutely conscious of every move made by Citizen Coolidge in California. Speculation continued as to the significance, if any, of this Coolidge junket. President Hoover's White House secretariat, more alarmed about it than anyone else, expressed secret misgivings lest it might portend presidential developments...