Word: predict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Carens of the Transcript: "If experience and power are to prevail tomorrow, Penn will subdue the Crimson. . . . It would be unwise to climb out on a limb and predict certain victory for the Red and Blue, but the Philadelphia visitors have fine poise and spirt...
...called the crash, citizens divided between those who believed that it would soon be over and those who believed that only ruin and the end of reasoning man lay ahead. No genius was needed to foretell the war's coming. But no genius was clairvoyant enough to predict its outcome or its end, to guess the magnitude of the struggle or how, eventually, its antagonists would line up; no philosopher was so clear as to say what it would do to the complex of heritages, laws, customs, beliefs and traditions that are known as civilization...
Nobody contends that Harvard's 1939 eleven will go down in history as a world beater. Nobody who saw Saturday's game would predict a Rose Rowl bid for the Crimson forces. In fact nearly everybody feels we have, at beat. a "just fair" team. .... And bud to relate, those nobodies and everybodies are right...
...would go. Most of them had heard the rumor that Adolf Hitler himself keeps a staff of five astrologers (TIME, July 24), who told him months ago that September would bring the climax of his career. If astrology had started Europe's war, Britons reasoned, surely astrologers could predict its course...
Most U. S. casualties in World War I were caused by gunshot, shrapnel, shell and rifle wounds. Most frequently injured organs were spinal columns. In decreasing order: abdomens, chests, heads. Exactly how casualties will line up in World War II, no one can yet predict, for new weapons cause new types of wounds. For every known type, army physicians are prepared. Many British surgeons carry an up-to-date handbook on war surgery, newly published by Drs. Philip Henry Mitchiner and Ernest Marshall Cowell...