Word: predictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some ask why Don Strauss, and Bea Nielsen are so chummy of late--a smile on the lips of many third decors will reveal the answer. Our premature "obituary" on Cagey Pickle caused some comment. Hereafter we will venture to predict nothing. M.C. Smith, who is getting older by the day, is nominated by the Millsaps Mariner, Bill Stark, as an eager beaver--how come? Jim "Cadence" Polhemus finally brought marine cadence to Briggs Cage. Yes, "the Hook" really got his chance when "the Orator" instigated rotating command. This innovation has uncovered many varieties of cadence existing here...
...Winthrop's plan (TiME, Jan. 8), like much good satire, is less frivolous than prophetic. I predict that by 2000 A.D. the Germans, having been encouraged to migrate, will be firmly entrenched on the moon, the U.S. General Staff having rejected the planet as "militarily unsuitable" and the British having discounted it as unnavigable...
...Escape. Perhaps, he suggested, some country houses might be kept up as national monuments, and others turned into public schools or country clubs. Then he added: "But I predict that we shall see a great revival of community life, and if so, many large country houses may be bought up cheap and turned into monastic or collegiate institutions...
...situation [Rundstedt's attack] is very serious. . . . Our intelligence service broke down completely. They appear to have been unaware of a German force of 200,000 men. . . . Imagine the population of Richmond [200,000] being assembled across the Potomac and we not knowing about it." Asked to predict the war's end, he snorted: "Well, I no longer count by anything but decades. So come back on my 90th birthday and I'll tell...
General Electric displayed it in little cans labeled "Bouncing Putty." What use, if any, this curiosity may have, chemists are not yet prepared to say. But bouncing putty is one of a new class of chemical materials, called silicones, which chemists ecstatically predict have as great a postwar future as radar...