Word: predict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grain experts could predict with perfect confidence that no one will starve for wheat. Piled high in grain elevators in the U. S., Canada and elsewhere are huge carry-overs from last year. From a curse these carryovers have now become a blessing. The U. S. has 265,000,000 bu. to cover her 140,000,000 bu. shortage for this year. By July 1935 the U. S. carry-over will be reduced to around 120,000,000 bu.?a normal carryover for the first time in seven years. Canada's surplus from last year...
...most businessmen Senator Thomas' blast at Governor Harrison and his rallying cry to his Congressional colleagues sounded like a significant renewal of the inflationary drive to force the dollar below 59¢?a drive which wiseacres now predict will reach its climax at the Capitol next winter...
...never one to predict whether I'll win nor can I forecast a record. I hear the track is fast and I'm glad of that." So said Glenn Cunningham, University of Kansas senior, as he arrived in Manhattan last week for Princeton's "perfect race." That race was to include three of the greatest milers of the day-Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke, Princeton's Bill Bonthron and Cunningham. The Kansan followed his custom of not bothering to practice. His legs, burned so badly when he was a child that doctors doubted if he would...
...difficult ... to predict the propulsion of airplanes by radiated energy with the power plants located on the ground. Nor is it difficult to envision the entire system of aerial transportation . . . unaffected by fog and weather conditions. Most of this work is being studied today under the name of photosynthesis-that is, how plants grow.-Charles Franklin Kettering, General Motors' researching vice president. ¶ It is reasonable to suppose that we shall soon find some knowledge regarding the ancient history of the universe. Has it been in operation forever, or did it start at some more or less definite time...
...delineation of a repulsive, animal type of existence, the product of political chaos, poverty, and moral degeneration which is probably, and moral degeneration which is probably better understood in France than in America. Thus, though it seems to strike a traditional response in the French public, we predict that in America it will not rise far above a secondary position as a "best seller...