Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening its first season as a major sport the lightweight crew will meet MIT on the Charles River course this afternoon. Crimson coach Joe Brown said the outcome is impossible to predict since this is the first race for both schools...
...Navy electronic experts want to predict officially how long the solar batteries will keep supplying power. One of them guesses unofficially that "our grandchildren may hear its signals." Eventually the windows in the skin of the sphere will be clouded by the sandblasting of micro-meteorites. No one knows how long this will take, or how much it will affect the action of the batteries...
...predict or favor an expansion of the College by a thousand students, commuters or residents. In fact, I have been and continue to be strongly opposed to any increase in the size of the College. The Admissions Committee does not, however, determine the size of the College, and it is possible that the decision will be, eventually, to expand. But whatever happens I cannot believe that any future administration will be so misguided as to add a thousand commuters to the Harvard student body...
...decided in the face of this kind of pressure to enlarge Harvard by a thousand, and if either the money or the space for additional Houses and dormitories cannot be found, then one easy answer would be to expand the number of commuting students. But, I neither predict nor recommend this. All I was trying to do was to suggest various theoretical possibilities... W. J. Bender, Dean of Admissions...
Thus far this season Coach Hal Ulen's predictions about his team's fortunes have usually been exactly as the outcome. Occasionally, as with Springfield, he overestimated the capabilities of the opposition, but he can usually predict the final score with remarkable accuracy...