Word: predict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predict his own behavior 24 hours in advance...
...polite humor was followed by a series of inferior imitations. The same publishers have brought out a new volume this season entitled "The Bedroom Companion or A Cold Nights Entertainment," which should prove in its own way a very popular successor. Written nominally for male consumption, one may easily predict that it will have universal feminine appeal, or at least more than it should...
There's no use, of course, in trying to solve the crime before Charlie does; the reels are stacked against you. But just the same we predict that you will be making all sorts of fantastic guesses. For the picture absorbs you in spite of yourself. You'll probably even play so completely into Mr. Chan's hands as to reproach him when he's merely being clever...
Prospects are rosy for this first game, which is looked upon as a good conditioner for the squad. Even Joe Stubbs admits that "We Ought to win it," and the most conservative prognosticators predict a margin of four or five goals for the untried Crimson...
...Knockout." Thus did Challenger Sixto Escobar, swart, pint-sized Puerto Rican, haltingly predict to newshawks last week the outcome of his bout with Champion Lou Salica for the world's bantamweight crown. When the savage 15-round struggle was over, Escobar was proved two-thirds correct. By a steady body attack, he won the decision, reversed the result of their first meeting three months...