Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Test. Having developed a method of measuring success after the ceremony, Professor Burgess proceeded to design an objective test to predict success or failure before marriage. This he did by examining significant facts in the background of the successful couples. Good and bad matrimonial risks, according to Professor Burgess...
...rapid increase in the number of German scholars in this country, it is safe to predict, will stimulate a greater interest in Germanic scholarship than has ever existed in the past," Dr. Kuhn said...
When he was asked to predict the future, General Wood wryly recalled that last summer he felt that conditions were good and went away for a six-weeks hunting trip. "When I came back I found I was 100% wrong." This time, however, General Wood was ready to guess that good times were not far away, for Sears, Roebuck inventories, having been cut some 40%, in common with most inventories are "pretty well worked...
...consideration of these modern complexities "it is possible to predict a broader role for medicine in the university than is involved in the care of acute infections and other physical disorders," Dr. Bock said...
...Shanghai, Generalissimo Chiang's big banker brother-in-law T. V. Soong was standing pat in the International Settlement, despite reports that he had fled. "I predict," he declared "that within three months-providing we can hold out, which I am sure we can-Japan will be on the verge of bankruptcy and facing revolution!" To achieve this aim, Chinese were burning down whole cities, such as Chinkiang 40 miles east of Nanking, destroying millions of dollars worth of Chinese property. This was announced as a "scorched earth policy" to make conquest as difficult as possible for Japan...