Word: prediction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slow Marvels. This is what the aerodyne does, says Dr. Lippisch. He thinks that the design will be more suited to large aircraft than small. So far, his aerodyne is strictly experimental, and he does not want to predict when it will come into flying use. "I developed the delta-wing aircraft back in the '30s," he says, "and look at the time it took to develop them. I ran into the same trouble that I am running into now. Everyone marvels, but the development away from conventional, conservative systems is hard to get started...
...height, weight and breadth of 18-year-olds can be predicted with "a high degree of probability" when they are only a few years old, reported New York City's Dr. Irving Kowaloff in the New York State Journal of Medicine. Examples, based on statistical studies of large numbers of children: when a boy is two years old, his height and pelvic breadth should be multiplied by two, his weight by five, to predict what his measurements will be when he is 18. The same formula applies to girls' dimensions, except that weight and height should be calculated...
CHRISTMAS-CARD BOOM will break all records this year, says the National Association of Greeting Card Publishers, who predict a gross of $175 million on 2 billion cards...
Varsity Coach Jack Barnaby yesterday refused to predict possibilities of an undefeated season for the squash team. "We have to play our opponents one at a time," he said...
Although it is too late to schedule a 35th anniversary game with Centre next fall, the Kentucky college fills all the qualifications for a 1957 or 1958 opponent. Its athletic director has said that "there isn't a stadium in Kentucky that could hold the crowd," and Boston observers predict that the contest would draw well in Cambridge too. The observation by Centre President Groves that "It's not like the good old days here; we play strictly amateur ball," would seem to dovetail perfectly with Harvard's football philosophy. This past year, moreover, Centre's small enrollment managed...