Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Producer George (Tonight We Sing) Jessell, always ready with a gag, cracked: "I predict that one year from now the studios will be making nothing but glasses...
...aerodynamicist performs complicated mathematical analysis in order to predict the flight characteristics of a plane still on the designer's drawing board. He advises the design groups regarding the influence of aerodynamic considerations on the eventual design of the airframe...
What happens next is standard procedure at all record companies. Advance copies are sent out to as many as 2,000 of the nation's 5,000-odd disk jockeys-the real middlemen of the ballad business. No A & R man can soundly predict how a new disk will take. But company salesmen as a group are good prognosticates, and certain cities, such as Philadelphia and Boston, seem to be particularly seismographic in detecting the rumble of an approaching hit. If the signs are good, the company may press as many as 150,000 copies in the first edition...
...silly to predict glumly the demise of secularism at PBH. The new Professor has not even been chosen. If the high standards of the terms of his selection can be met, he will not be a dogmatist, but will stand as a teacher as high above his own religion as stands another University Professor, Zechariah Chafee, above the dogmatic liberals. And the selection committee, including as it does Bishops Oxnam and Knox and Dr. Niebuhr, is certainly qualified to find such a man, of he exists...
Even the press enjoyed itself. Wrote Critic Henry S. Humphreys in the Times-Star: "There has been a jinx on operas based on Shakespeare's plays. With the possible exception of Otello, not one of them has held the stage. I confidently predict that Vittorio Giannini's The Taming of the Shrew . . . will break the Shakespeare jinx...