Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come out of advertising-offices instead of out of newspaper offices as in the past. The advertising writers, in fact, have already gone far ahead of the reporters. They choose their words more carefully; they are better workmen, if only because they have more time for good work. I predict formally that they will produce a great deal of the sound American literature of tomorrow...
...rain, snow, sleet, hurricane, cloudburst, earthquake.? Mr. Marvin could tell the President that the rainfall for 1925 was 13% less than normal and 1926 was 1% drier than normal. Unless the rain gods decree a pretty pattering on the window panes in 1927 and 1928, meteorologists must predict defeat for Republicans...
Colleges all over the country are watching the new experiment with interest. Minnesota doubts whether the idea would work "superimposed on an educational system such as ours which has previously been somewhat paternalistic." The Brown Daily Herald and The Cornell Sun edutorially refuse to predict the outcome of Harvard's plan but they are agreed upon its possibilities and hopeful for its success. There is apparently no reason why the precarious brittleness of experimental ice upon which Harvard is treading should not harden into a solider basis strong enough to support the infinite number of educational institutions which...
...good test would be to have all self-styled astrologers predict that week in the future which will witness another such epidemic as swept the world last week-an epidemic of buying and selling newspapers...
...call, candidates for the University, Freshman, 150-pound and class crews all being summoned at the same time. The many changes which have occurred in the University rowing situations since the 1926 crew trailed Yale across the finish line at New London last year make it very hard to predict anything about the progress or success of the new season...