Word: predict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult to predict the outcome of the bouts, since there are always 'dark hourses' from the graduate schools who have had previous experience. The members of the University team who ought to provide stern opposition to any graduates are closely matched among themselves, and give reason for belief that they will exclude nearly all outsiders from the finals...
...violence. But President Lowell has attempted to look beyond immediate effects and to discover, if possible, its ultimate significance. With a well buttressed premise that the Kellogg-Briand Pact is not, strictly speaking, a treaty and that it authorizes no enforcement against refractory signatories, the article moves on to predict portentous effects of the Stimson letter upon international relations in the future. Instead of encouraging an immediate forceful alteration of unsatisfactory treaties, such a policy would lead to lengthy controversies about rights, protracted friction between disputing powers, and possible hostilities. Furthermore, universally accepted it would provide a highly undesirable loophole...
...flowing varies widely, depending upon the temperature of the tube, the size of the tube, the nature of the fluid, and the velocity of flow. All of those influences are to be studied in this research, and it is hoped that ultimately it will be possible to predict rates of heat transfer from values of simple properties of the fluid which can be measured with ordinary laboratory apparatus, such as density, viscosity, thermal conductivity, and the like...
...years. Representative Vinson dropped his bill in January because of the Geneva Conference and the low state of Treasury finances. Fortnight ago, however, he took the House floor to announce a change of mind, to point a warning finger at the "crisis" in the Far East, to predict failure for the Geneva parley, to argue that naval shipbuilding during Depression would save the U. S. money, help relieve unemployment...
Immediately after the conclusion of the Assembly a skeleton group of organizers will meet to commence the preliminaries for the 1933 Model League session. While it is too early as yet to predict with any degree of certainty where this session will be held, Harvard is being prominently suggested by many students as a very desirable locality. The existence of a strong nucleus of experienced men at the University next year will undoubtedly be an important factors in influencing the final choice...