Word: predicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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None of the scientists wants to predict how long the Explorer will cling to space, but Major General John B. Medaris, head of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, thinks it may stay up for as long as ten years...
...compressed the spinal cord. He was paralyzed from the shoulders down. For more than four hours, a team of three surgeons worked over him. At week's end sensation and strength were beginning to flow back through his rugged body. But his doctors were cautiously refusing to predict when Campanella would walk again, let alone play baseball...
...controlled thermonuclear power. Much higher temperatures, above 100 million degrees, will be needed before the fusion of deuterium gives off even as much energy as it consumes. All sorts of thorny practical problems will have to be solved before thermonuclear energy flows through practical wires. No one wants to predict definitely how long it will take. "It couldn't possibly be less than ten years," says Sir John Cockcroft. "It might be as long as 50. Twenty plus is about the most reasonable guess...
Crystal-ball gazers predict that B.U. will dominate the weights and the Crimson the middle distance races. The final outcome will probably depend on certain "toss-up" events, like the broad jump, hurdles, dash, and pole vault...
Coach Brooks declined to predict the outcome of the Huntington meet, but expressed hope for his swimmers. He said that the names of the swimmers for each event will be chosen just before the match from a squad of about...