Word: predictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hard to Predict. Seldom had an election result been so hard to predict by rule-of-thumb. Some ten million electors would vote for the first time in their lives. The Tories, after their 1935 landslide (387 seats out of 615) were bound to lose some ground, but Win-with-Winnie was a massive counterbalance to the postwar leftward swing. War-worn Britons wanted social reforms and meant to have them. Would they go part of the way to socialization with the Conservatives, or most of the way with Labor...
Wars are times of change, of rapid transformation; often hardly loss so in the victorious than in the vanquished nations. I venture to predict that the 1940s will mark a turning point in the history of American collegiate education. There is hardly a college or university in the whole land which has not been at work reexamining its educational policy during the past three years. There has been a veritable downpour of reports and books dealing with various phased of education. Harvard's contribution to this nation-wide discussion takes the from of a book entitled, "General Education...
...many subjects . . . and through an analysis of multiple readings on two ... it appears that attending motion picture shows . . . is by no means relaxation in the physiological sense. . . . It remains to be seen whether the collective change in the body temperature of a preview audience can be used to predict the box-office success of a film...
...venture to predict that the present excitement about war criminals will seem ridiculous a few years hence. At this juncture we can afford to remember what...
Said FEA's Leo Crowley, who had a part in drafting "revised directive 1067": "We are going to have a tremendous policing job and we will be busy at it for years. I predict that some people will get mighty tired of it, and there will be a campaign to get us out of Germany...