Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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with the subject mater of the remaining chapters: "The Lungs and the Blood," "Speed, Strength and Endurance," where-in the sprinter learns that scientists can predict his times from only two or three "medical" observations, and so on. Nor do all these facts and thoughts stick out like a sore thumb in the book, as they do here. Far from that, they form part of the fabric of the text, and all contribute to give the reader a clearer and broader view of the place that he and his body, and all "living machinery" hold in the scheme of things...
Said Mr. Garner: "I want to predict right now that after this bill goes to the Senate and comes back to the House in conference, it will carry reductions of between $400,000,000 and $500,000,000. ... We must have a little steel down the back of the House conferees and maintain the bill we finally pass. ... I haven't the slightest fear but that reductions can go between $300,000,000 and $350,000,000 and still have a surplus...
...meal at which President Coolidge received Mr. Lorimer been dinner instead of breakfast, a prediction by Mayor Thompson would have come true. In 1910, just prior to Mr. Lorimer's ejection from the Senate, Theodore Roosevelt refused to attend a club dinner in Chicago until an invitation to Mr. Lorimer was withdrawn. Said Mayor Thompson : "Roosevelt is riding for a fall. He will never get to the White House again. I predict that 'Billy' Lorimer will dine with a (rood Republican President in the White House. And I hope I'm there...
...football was a game. The tradition which made football for any and all a part of the athletic policies of Harvard and other universities had its inception in Percy Haughton. The annals of sport are not so complete but that heroes' names are soon forgotten. It is safe to predict that this will not be the case with the memory of Percy Haughton. Even if it should be go, he would be content with a lifework well done, whose end is not yet in sight...
...Presidents will learn a lesson about the embarrassments of amity. For in spite of President Coolidge's "heat," in spite of a tart suggestion by President Coolidge that Ohio politics* colored Senator Fess's interpretation of the country's "strong demand," Senator Fess continued to predict more freely than ever the renomination of the man he calls on so often...