Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rearmament. But a certain freshness of point and purpose was lent to Premier Blum's remarks by echoes from the conference of the International Labor Office, meeting at Geneva. There, representing President Roosevelt and U. S. Labor, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady sounded off: "I predict that the world's working men and women will not forever be content to stand by while civilized living is being sacrificed on the altar of armaments, nor longer be willing to forge a means of their own destruction...
Having accepted the ability of masters of celestial mechanics to predict the paths and times of eclipses years ahead, laymen are surprised when the prophecies are a few miles or a few seconds in error. Last week in Peru Dr. Serge A. Korff of the Carnegie Institution reported that the eclipse lasted ten seconds longer than the computations called for, and a Japanese savant declared that it began ten seconds later than expected. The fault is not with human mathematics, but with a mysterious wobbling of the moon from its orbit...
Declared Novelist Kathleen Norris, arriving from Europe where she had reported George VI's coronation for the North American Newspaper Alliance: ''I predict that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will break up in less than two years. I base my bet on the letters, some 300 of them a day, that I have been receiving from women everywhere during the last eight years. . . . What Mrs. Simpson and the Duke did is not the sort of thing we would stand for in the White House. No American President has ever put to the people the question...
...possible influence of Messrs. Browder and Lewis on the young, conservatives should not be disturbed. The majority of Harvard undergraduates favored Mr. Landon in 1936, and it is safe to predict that, come weal or Lewis, they will be backing the Republican candidate...
Haunting U. S. psychiatrists almost as much as it does their prospective patients is the alarming increase of modern mental diseases.* One out of every 22 persons, promises a New York State survey, may expect to spend some part of his life in a mental hospital. The gloomiest statisticians predict that in a couple of centuries everybody will be insane. The Mentally Ill in America is an authoritative, well-organized account of how the U. S. has coped with mental defectives thus far, attempts no predictions...