Word: predict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Secretary of State James Byrnes: "By [the democratic] process you have been cleared. I am happy to approve the recommendation that you be returned to active duty. ... I predict for you a continuance of a splendid record...
Many of radar's wartime jobs, based on locating a noncooperating target, in peacetime could be performed just as well by ordinary radio. Nonetheless, engineers predict a great postwar future for it. For one thing, they expect it to be required equipment on ships and possibly on commercial planes...
...Labour Ministry of Education will initiate historic changes in British public education," Finer went on to predict. "A statute already passed by the Churchill Government, raising the minimum education age to 16, will be extracted from its pigeon hole and will become a reality," he said...
...voters almost up to the moment they stepped into polling booths last week. Seldom had so apathetic an electorate drifted so listlessly toward so momentous an election. Seldom had a rowdedow campaign ended in such eleventh-hour fireworks. Seldom had a result been so hard to predict (best guess as polling began: a small majority for the Conservatives; for Labor a gain of 100-odd seats...
...Music cagily tested the Schillinger method on its summer students.* Behind its stately facade, soft-voiced, bespectacled Executive Director Arnold Shaw of the Schillinger Society gave the first Schillinger lecture in an American music school. His objective: to prepare 35 music teachers and students for 1950, when Schillingerites predict that orthodox composers will be old-hat and "pure music" will be created by music engineers on machines (like the Rhythmicon invented by Schillinger...