Word: predict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nonetheless, Columbia was factually entertaining the Technocrats. A cry arose when the community discovered that $5,700 per month of unemployment relief was enabling the Technocrats to predict everlasting unemployment. Last week President Butler sidestepped: "Columbia University has no more to do with Technocracy than it has with the Fourth Dimension...
...with his high mental development, may well be an early stage in the start of a new class of vertebrates. . . . Taking the available evidence into consideration, it seems safe to predict that homo sapiens will survive this depression and many others...
...would be unjustified to predict that the healing of the wound will not leave deep and ineffaceable scars. In the six years since the last game with Princeton, Harvard has traveled a long road, leading it ever farther from the ways of the black and gold. Despite the cheery words of athletic directors about "natural rivals" and "the Big Three," apathy and the indisputable fact of the House plan, with all that it implies, may imperil the hoped-for importance of the game...
Lest the Kuomintang cheer up too much and start a spending orgy, Dr. Soong spoke ominously of "facing an apparent deficit for 1933 of $40,000,000." By the most extreme economy, which he called "cutting Government expenses to a skeleton," Dr. Soong hopes but does not predict that China's budget may be made to balance next year at about...
...order changeth, there are a few who look upon the metamorphosis not casually, not with a coldly historic eye, not in blissful ignorance, but with an interested appraisal of the change which allows them to evaluate the evolution, and to predict the outcome. Such is the unknown author of "Before the Curtain Falls." The book which he has produced is a combination of historical retrospection, such as "Only Yesterday," and modern novel as written by, perhaps, Sinclair Lewis. It is a novel about the generation which did not dream that a deluge would ever come, about the feverish madness...