Word: predict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loud shouting and of anxious waiting--awaiting a time when the powers will agree to ask him back to Geneva, with appropriate minor concessions. In effect this election is Germany's last call for a peaceful settlement. Pollux is inclined to be pessimistic about this matter, and to predict an "un-moneyed, simple conflict" comparable to the Thirty Years' War. I am inclined to agree...
Then, cautiously: "It is still too early to predict whether these apparent cures will be permanent. . . . It is well to remember that disappointments in the treatment of leprosy have been many...
Research scientists predict that an all-electric world may soon be a reality and electricity will be time-clocked as a super-worker whom man needs only supply with tools, thus taking one more step toward the perfectly mechanized world envisioned by various Utopists and by the prophets of Technocracy...
...among them your columnist, has doubted the economic possibility of a European conflict. Pondering excessively, I am unable to see that the credit agencies, governmental and private, which assisted in the confection of the World War could come to the front again, as so many observers are willing to predict, for their zeal has cooled and their money is padlocked, and mere subsistence is difficult for them. The kind of war which we spell with a capital letter is very, very remote; but there is another kind which the poor in all nations and at all times have embraced...
...commences by pointing out the evident fact that the success of the NIRA depends on the decision of the Supreme Court, when that body is eventually faced with a test case. He then proceeds to discuss the philosophy, life, and opinions of the judges, in an attempt partially to predict their decisions. He touches on the fundamental questions of property rights, in a manner which has no nauseous tang of economic theory. The article concludes with a discussion of the fact that the Court, if it decides for the NIRA, will be ending in a sense its own supremacy...