Word: predict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gerardo Machado drew a deep, relieved breath and, like a contemplative barman picking up the chairs after a routine saloon fight, began setting his country to rights. Like an experienced barman, however, President Machado kept an alert eye cocked for a renewal of hostilities, which hotheads had continued to predict during the past fortnight. In Havana, where an expected uprising never materialized, police sat ready in armored cars. Miguel Marano Gomez, onetime Mayor of Havana, who spent the revolutionary period hiding in Havana, waiting for the insurrecto campaign on the eastern end of the island to become a success, escaped...
...will show over the beneficiaries of the spoils system or of the present inadequate civil service examinations, may force even a politician to appoint for ability rather than personal service. Since this method of offering such a course as this has never been tried before, it is impossible to predict the outcome, but the importance of the service concerned leads one to expect success. At any rate there can be no doubt about the worth of this project as a first step in the right direction...
...internationalist the author seeks the combatants and the battlefield for the coming struggle between collectivism and individualism. Russia and the United States are picked to wage an economic battle in Asia, the world's greatest potential market. Here the book becomes interesting but unreliable because no one can predict on so vast a scale and expect to be believed. However, the weighing of the respective strengths and weaknesses of socialism and capitalism is particularly good and saves this last part of the work from becoming a distinct detriment...
...United States Steel Corp. nursed dark, not-to-be-spoken views. Last week all such ideas were quickly shattered. In Chicago blocky, white-haired Mr. Farrell arose to address a convention of the National Canners and National Wholesale Grocers Association. He was far more bullish than those who predict a turning-point in the "not distant future." Said he: "The peak of the Depression passed 30 days...
...Nations prize essay contests and women's club lectures. Yet it is hard for Americans to believe that all Europe is arming "for the war that is coming." However, there is every reason to believe that an element of truth lurks behind the alarming reports of returning tourists who predict war within the year...