Word: predict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confidently predict Christianity will be a spiritual force long after our civilization has passed away," historian Arnold J. Toynbee said in the third of the Hewitt Lectures yesterday...
...only 439 miles. The total has since expanded enormously; as of this week 1,712 miles are in use, 1,527 under construction and 5,622 more planned. Total cost: $10.7 billion, repayable by road users directly at no cost to taxpayers generally. By 1965, highway experts predict, motorists will be riding nonstop-for a price-on turnpikes from Chicago to Miami, from the East Coast to Omaha, and from Fort Kent, on Maine's Canadian border, to the edge of Mexico...
...amazed to discover that when the natives drink milk, they do not flavor it with salt and sugar ... I predict that the next North American newspaperman who writes an expert's opinion of Cuba will know less about Cuba than I know about the States...
...travelers, the airplane is fast becoming almost as familiar as the family car. In 1955 scheduled domestic airlines will gross an estimated $1.1 billion, flying 35 million passengers 20 billion miles, 20% more than last year's alltime record. A few years hence, airmen predict, the fast-growing airlines will push out railroads as the No. 1 public means of mass travel. As a result, U.S. civil air policy, as laid down by the Civil Aeronautics Board, is undergoing a radical change. Once CAB nursed along the fledgling industry by spoon-feeding it Government subsidies and holding back competition...
...Only the most rabid alumnus would predict a Harvard victory Cornell in the Stadium this afternoon." Some did but they were wrong as the Big Red won once more. The scoreboard read...