Word: predict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teary farewell at the close of the 1941 season to the best Varsity line Soldiers Fields has seen in recent years--a forward wall which included such rugged characters as Club Peabody Dick Pflster, Loren MacKinney, Tom Gardiner and Vern Miller--he's been wistfully seeking its equal. To predict that this year's Beef Trust will be a replica of that famous pre-war predecessor is wishful thinking only for the most partial of Crimson rooters, but a midsummer glance at the situation has enough bright spots to lead to moderately pleasant speculation...
...Methodist Pastor Safran has the courage to speak out against the . . . racial bigotry which we in the North practice. The Church of England actually has more applicants for religious training than it has vacancies. A fighting Protestant Irishman has gotten hard-bitten policemen to act like "gentlemen." Japanese Christians predict a tenfold increase in their ranks. And TIME says that "the greatest writing in human history has been religious writing. . . ." A wonderful department, indeed...
...picture's market value (or Want-to-See) depends on four basics: 1) theme -not necessarily the same as plot, 2) title, 3) cast and 4) a relatively unimportant item, treatment (script, direction, acting, etc.). By testing the first three elements on a cross-section audience, A.R.I, can predict, before a foot of film is exposed, whether the finished picture will panic them or put them to sleep...
...during the war, Hollywood longingly eyed the very hush-hush activities of the Office of Strategic Services, which was rumored to be parachuting real American spies into occupied Europe. Anyone could predict that such goings-on would some day be a natural for the movies. Sure enough, the minute wartime secrecy was ended, several major studios began stumbling over each other to riffle through the official files. Paramount hired 30 ex-O.S.S. heroes (as technical advisers and bit-players) and shot thrill-packed scenes for seven frantic weeks. Result: Paramount has beaten all competitors with the first movie based...
Less interested in cows than in his academic plans, Professor Spencer went on enthusiastically to predict an increased emphasis on "the Union between the study of literature and creative expression," revealing his plans to implement such an increase...