Word: predict
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...Christ, and their sufferings "Stations of the Cross in anticipation of the Crucifixion." But he does not explicitly accept Christ's divinity. Toynbee also sees Christianity as the "climax of a continuous upward movement of spiritual progress" and thinks that "a 20th century historian might venture to predict that Christianity's transfiguring effect on the World up to date would be outshone by its continuing operation in the future." But he does not accept Christianity as the only true religion. To do so, he believes, is a "sin." If to be a Christian is to believe that Christianity...
UMass coaches predict that there'll be a lot of passes thrown by both sides in the Stadium today. And an excited Redman team will be only slightly surprised if their players wind up on the receiving end of most of them, and go on, after 38 long years, to win the "Rose Bowl...
...authors predict that if unions win more fringes and management continues to bestow extras on its own (as it often has), fringes may replace wage boosts: "Both labor and management need to reconsider . .. The American appetite for more security against the risks of life, coupled with the desire for more time off with pay, is virtually a bottomless pit into which the whole economy could fall-at the expense of the wage structure which in the last analysis constitutes the real base of our national standard of living...
COFFEE PRICES, pulled down by an abrupt slide in wholesale prices (TIME, Aug. 30), dipped below $1 a pound in most stores. Retail prices may go even lower because U.S. Agriculture Department crop reporters predict a surplus next year...
...life at Vicksburg, on his knees with a grapefruit knife in his hand, digging out the first scale models of American rivers. He recalls that many top engineers ridiculed the project, and Vogel for "making mud pies," but the Vicksburg scale models now allow the engineers to predict and combat great river floods with amazing accuracy. Vogel later served as district Army engineer in Pittsburgh and Buffalo, and lieutenant governor of the Panama Canal Zone. During World War II, he won the Legion of Merit for home-front engineering projects and the Distinguished Service Medal for service in the Pacific...