Word: predict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Judiciary Committee put off action on the civil rights issue again yesterday, but Chairman Eastland (D-Miss.) said it probably would begin considering the legislation April 29. Eastland wouldn't predict when the committee might take a vote, but Sen. Neely (D-W. Va.) offered an estimate that it never would...
Early in the lecture, Oppenheimer said that his idea of the unity of science was not at all like that of Laplace, who thought that an observer knowing exactly the present state of the entire universe could predict exactly the future. This notion, he said, was inconsistent in a "deep, profound sense" with the nature of the world and man's knowledge...
...Carlos Garcia home from Australia, where he has been attending the SEATO Conference. A nondescript politician forced on Magsaysay by the Nationalists, Garcia is unlikely to be more than a caretaker until the presidential elections, to be held this fall. Just who that successor will be, no one can predict. Magsaysay so completely dominated Philippine politics and affections that in all likelihood he would have been nominated by both parties. There was no one like him -a man in whom Filipinos saw their best, just as he always saw the best in them...
Other papers showed that much work has been done on radio equipment to communicate with spaceships and inhabited satellites. The probable reactions of human bodies and minds to space conditions have been carefully investigated, mostly by Air Force physicians. Other scientists have tried to predict how much damage will be done to spaceborne objects by solar X rays and ultraviolet rays, and by micrometeorites. Still others have worked on instruments for space navigation, on how to select space crews, how to train them and how to keep them alive with the least possible amount of food and oxygen...
Dean Leighton, a member of the Committee, also refused to predict what, if anything, the Corporation might...