Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...level Harvard committee admits the University may have made a mistake, it's a good idea to watch what happens next. Last week, the Committee on Educational Policy made such an admission indirectly, when it set up Donald C. McKay's special committee on Geography. No one can predict what this group will suggest, nor what will happen to its recommendations, but it's a pretty good bet that something will be done to patch up last year's hasty hatcheting of a vital field...
...year later, in the spring of 1946, the now defunct New York newspaper PM published a music column written by "Nostradamus," which attempted to predict the quality of coming musical events. In his final column of the year, discussing the 1946-47 season of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Nostradamus warned his readers to watch out for a conductor named Charles Munch. His success will be immediate and enormous, he predicted...
...most people are optimistic. A few members of Harvard's Music Department are looking for-ward to Munch's arrival with frank relief. And while this attitude may not be characteristic of most members of the Department, it is certain that almost all those who have heard Munch conduct predict a great deal of fresh, interesting music for Boston audiences next year...
...Boston paper led its story with, "Exciting new history is being written with blood," and went on to say, "Just what the isolation of living white blood cells will turn up, scientists cannot predict at this time. But. . . one important use may be the introduction of living white blood cells into the bloodstream f a patient under treatment for cancer...
...eleven weeks with the nation's top military people: the past & present Secretaries of Defense, the three Secretaries and their chiefs of staff. The military agreed that if war immediately threatened, the bill should be at least $50 billion, not $15 billion. Said Mahon: "These men did not predict an early outbreak of war, but they agreed that some unpredictable development might throw us suddenly into conflict . . . This, however, was not anticipated . . . No military leader has made the remotest suggestion that we should launch an unprovoked attack upon any country on earth . . . No military man before us recommended complete...