Word: unforeseen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which New Faces is based contained a first-rate comedy idea.. Its hero was a shoestring theatrical impresario whose method consisted of selling a show to several different backers, then making sure that the show was so bad it closed immediately. The method worked perfectly until the unforeseen accident of a hit put the impresario in the miserable position of having to pay 85% of its profits to all its various angels simultaneously. As rewritten by a battery of Hollywood scenarists, this idea is somehow boiled down to the skeleton for a succession of vaudeville turns most of which...
...termed a breach of the peace and undergraduates who indulge in them take the inescapable risk of running afoul of the law as well as the college authorities, it is evident that riots are an unprofitable way of spending a spring evening, and often lead the innocent student to unforeseen and disastrous ends. But, compared to riots that occur during strikes, and communist battles every May day, a student "riot" can hardly be called a serious affair. Despite several gallons of water spread over the streets of Cambridge, and a few parking signs transferred from one side of the road...
Today's open practice will consist, as in the past, of a pass defense drill, and work on execution and reception of kickoffs. Unless an unforeseen heat wave develops that will be followed with a light signal drill...
...author attempts to trace through her scene in the southeast part of Yorkshire the pattern of "the complex tangle of motives prompting public decisions, the unforeseen consequences of their enactment on private lives." Readers unfamiliar with English local government will do well to turn to Vera Brittain's note (in an appendix) explaining the history and functions of county councils...
...Westinghouse organization employing 35,000 workers sits Chairman Andrew Wells Robertson, a 56-year-old onetime school teacher who made his mark operating Pittsburgh's street car system. He stepped into Westinghouse in 1929. In the report last week President Frank Anderson Merrick joined Chairman Robertson in predicting: "Unforeseen events may change estimates for better or for worse; but, to the best of our judgment, 1936 should be a fairly prosperous year. We are making plans accordingly...