Word: predict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jitterbug," declared veteran composer Sigmund Romberg (Student Prince,Blossom Time), "is the healthiest kind of exercise. There's no sex in it like those 'lights low' dances after the last war. But I predict its eventual demise...
...behave as he expected they would, moving backward during the breeding season toward the tail membrane. Dr. Cowles postulates that the venous blood, returning from the air-cooled membranes, keeps their temperature down. Next step will be to prove it with accurate observations. Fellow zoologists cheer him on, but predict that he will have trouble when he tries to take the temperature of a bat's testes while it is flying...
...doing so, Dakin so simplified the complex theory of cycles that some hard-headed businessmen and conservative economists may dismiss the whole thing as moonshine. Nevertheless, Dewey, who insists that the theory is based on objective facts, was an accurate enough prophet to predict, in 1943, what many experts are now saying, that the boom would reach its peak in 1947. And Shelf Union Oil Corp., welcoming even a beam of moonshine in the murky field of economics, has recommended the book for its executives...
What Senator Pepper would predict with finality is the fate of vindictive efforts in Congressional Committee to quash the whole of Labor: "It's obvious that the liberal Republicans and the Democrats are joining to prevent antiunion measures. Of course there will be legislation, but we are trying to make it reasonable and rational. We'll succeed in Committee. On the floor I don't know...
While Republicans blinked and Democrats grinned, there came another blast. South Dakota's ultra-conservative Republican Senator Harlan J. Bushfield bounced up to declare, "The leaders of Congress are in confusion among themselves. . . . We have failed in everything which we promised the voters. ... I predict that unless the Republicans come alive . . . . they will fail again when the next election comes around...