Word: predict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olivia boarded with a respectable lady and went on triumphantly as Violet. Ever since, except for a brief spell of discouragement when she thought of becoming a speech teacher, Olivia has pursued her profession with the same energy and bounce that led her high-school class to predict that she would become a "circus queen...
...Louis Bean, who predicted President Truman's victory, in his book How to Predict Elections...
...experts predict that the Treasury will take in at least $43 billion in fiscal 1949. To finance its tentative program for 1950, therefore, the Administration can reasonably count upon just about enough revenue. But this program contains very few of the broad social welfare objectives advocated by Harry Truman in his campaign...
...Almost-right" is almost right, and sweet of you to say so [TIME, Nov. 15], but it won't do. I made no attempt to "predict the election," a business up to the electorate. I said, on the evidence of what I could see and sense from, where I sat ... that it was going to be close-closer than the country thought. It was. That wasn't "almost-right." It was right. Quite right...
...they're going to wear white uniforms," Bill Barclay said yesterday, but beyond that, the Varsity basketball coach couldn't predict his starting lineup for Saturday's opener with Brown at Providence...