Word: predict
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expected Edgar Faure, France's 21st Premier since World War II, to last long in the job. But last week, when the National Assembly adjourned with him still in control, he could-and did -boast of a six-month record of achievements that few would have dared predict. For this he could in part thank the man who wasn't there-his old friend and now bitterest rival, ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France...
Russell rounds off Nightmares with two longish fantasies about the future of the world. They predict plenty of heavy going during the next 4,000 years, and as fiction they read like their prediction...
LIFE INSURANCE SALES are setting new records in 1955, says the Institute of Life Insurance. First-half sales were 25% ahead of 1954 (six-month total: $23.4 billion) and insurance men predict the same high rate of gain for the rest of the year. Fastest climber: group insurance, up 85% during the first half...
...Evelyn Waugh takes whenever he lets down his nets. This novel is chiefly about officers who have always been gentlemen, particularly that "Christian gentleman,'' Guy Crouchback. It is every bit as good as Men at Arms, whose splendid characterizations and fine writing led many in 1952 to predict that its author had begun the best English fictional account of World War II. Waugh writes of the life and death of ruling-class commandomen with the authority of one who took part in raids on Bardia in Libya and fought in Yugoslavia. His eye for the ridiculous still flashes...
...Modern science no longer speaks about laws. What used to be called a law now is spoken of as a high probability because science cannot predict what an individual molecule in a given population is likely to do . . .. What were called laws now are being stated in terms of statistics...