Word: predict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declared that a knowledge of constitutional law means only the ability to look up the past records of the judges and to predict how they will vote. "It is always the court, not the constitution, which decides every case...
...York City: "Health officials said they would be unable to predict whether it would be safe to open the schools on Sept. 9 as scheduled. . . . This week should mark the peak of the current outbreak. . . . The death rate this year has been exceptionally low, less than...
Except President Roosevelt, no man could predict the magic date of adjournment with more authority than Senate Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson. Last week Senator Robinson clopped out of the President's office, observed: "We want to speed adjournment all we can. Of course, there are several bills still in conference between the Senate and the House for final adjustment, and there are some others that the President would like to see action upon. . . . Under the circumstances I feel we will be fortunate to get through by Aug. 20." Lending weight to the Majority Leader's cautious hint...
...arose in a flood so cataclysmic that it changed its entire course and now empties into the Gulf of Chihli some 250 miles north. Last week "China's Sorrow" was rising in such terrifying volume that China's greatest flood experts said that they could not predict whether it would switch back to its course of 1854 or perhaps take an entirely unprecedented direction surging into thickly peopled valleys in which unsuspecting tens of thousands would be trapped...
...vast area from which Earth has lost 20 miles of outside skin. That "raw spot in Mother Earth's side promises to explain the true nature of Earth's disturbances, the crustal movements appearing to extend along the edges of the skinless areas. We shall never be able to predict the day on which an earthquake will occur. But it is possible that we shall be able to set the date to within a year...