Word: predictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present, it is impossible to predict any kind of an outcome, because few of the institutions have begun their schedule of dual meets as yet. Pennsylvania is the defending champion, having won the meet in Princeton's Palmer Stadium last year with 58 points...
...four variable factors, wind, current, competition, and the stroke rowed, probably in that order of importance, are the foundations on which conclusions about a time trial are built. With these in hand, Bolles can generally predict to within two seconds the time his boats will do over the course before they reach the starting line...
...criticism has had its effect. Nicholas Schenk, president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, has announced that Ayres will never get his job back with MGM. And since Metro is a subsidiary of Loew's, Inc., which controls almost half of the country's movie houses, it is not hard to predict that attitude of at least a large proportion of the country's theatre-owners in regard to exhibiting Ayres's films. Moreover, it is probable that what few managers have the courage to show his pictures will meet with a stiff boycott, arising not from spontaneous public opinion but from...
...inspired foresight. There are prophecies for every pocketbook, every human hope, dream, fear. The most magnificent prophets are still the Jews. This book contains much of Isaiah and Ezekiel, the Book of Revelation complete. Eighty pages are devoted to modish Michael Nostradamus, whose double-talk may or may not predict Hess's flight, Hitler's downfall. St. Odile predicts the end of the Germans-unless she is predicting the end of the Mohammedans, a more pressing danger in the 7th Century. "America's greatest prophet," John Ballou Newbrough, prophesies that there will be a great revolution...
...safe to predict, however, that Yale's record-smashing team, one of the greatest aggregations in the history of intercollegiate swimming history, will make the strongest old for the 1942 national team title...