Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spring, Md., Dr. Jesse W. Sprowls, professor of abnormal psychology at the University of Maryland, announced that Stevenson will win. His analysis: Stevenson is a typical introvert. Eisenhower a typical extrovert; in times of crisis, American voters generally favor the introvert. ¶In the fall edition of the magazine Forecast, Technical Editor Irys Vorel wrote that the stars indicate an Eisenhower victory. Said Editor Vorel: "We feel the Libra-scales are going to tilt a little wee bit toward the Eisenhower side and that ... he's going to win by a nose." ¶Onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for President...
...weapon behaved exactly as expected and forecast in many precise details by Dr. W. G. Penney, whose services were of the highest order...
...diminished. Earnestly, he warned "all the nations who would rather die than submit to Communist rule" that "hard sacrifice and constant toil" are still urgently necessary if the free world is to preserve its "right to live." But Churchill's warning was less dramatic than his optimistic forecast, and in war-weary Europe, his speech was taken to mean what too many Europeans wanted it to mean: that the time has come to relax...
Favorable to Republican hopes as most of these polls seemed, they were no solid forecast of Republican victory in November. The Republicans, warned Pollster George Gallup last week, had failed to convince the average voter that they had his interests at heart. (Asked which party they thought better "for people like yourself," 48% of those Gallup polled named the Democratic Party, only 31% the Republican Party.) "G.O.P. hopes," said Gallup, "must be pinned almost entirely on the personal popularity of General Eisenhower." Last week Ike was still running ahead of the Republican Party as a whole, but his voter strength...
...Soldiers Field the other afternoon, the press corps was discussing the coming game with Washington University of St. Louis. That game, forecast as an "excellent inter-sectional contest" in last week's H.A.A. football program, will be played in the Stadium tomorrow afternoon...