Word: predict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long-range weather forecasters predict partly cloudy skies, moderate northeast winds, and temperatures around 55 degrees. The afternoon's tour de force covers a mile and three-quarters upstream from the Longfellow bridge to the M.I.T. boathouse. The first race between the Crimson and M.I.T. 150-pound freshman crews begins at 3 P.M. and the next five are scheduled to follow at half-hour intervals...
Popell and Chrisman are both confident of at least finishing the race, but refuse to predict how near they'll come to the record of two hours, 18.5 minutes, not last year with the benefit of a strong tailwind...
...Charlotte last week, Ike was all but praised. Stevenson's target became the men around Ike and the G.O.P. itself. "When our President bestirs himself, ignores the expedient counsel of small-bore politicians and clears the high-pressure salesmen out of his house." said Stevenson, "I confidently predict that the American people will be enthusiastically and gratefully behind him. But I fear he will have to make his choice between uniting his party and uniting his nation . . . He cannot do both...
...clearly evident that Berenson would like to have Harvard run the place," Coolidge said. "Of course, we have all been thinking about it and hoping that it will be possible to develop an institution along the lines he suggests. But no one in his right mind would dare to predict. . . . I cannot make commitments for myself, or for him, or for them (the Corporation...
...erudite science of solid-state physics can predict from theory how strong a metallic crystal should be if all its atoms were arranged in a perfect, regular pattern. The figure is usually so high that the real metal seems like mush by comparison. Crystals formed in ordinary ways, e.g., by cooling from a liquid, are full of imperfections and irregularities that reduce their strength. Crystals of pure iron, for instance, should, in theory, be a hundred times stronger than they actually...