Word: predictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students in each department has fallen off about 50 percent, undergraduate enrollment in the Geological Sciences has dropped very insignificantly from 599 to 585 and in Astronomy about 25 percent from the fall figure of 50 students. Expecting radical decreases in undergraduate enrollment in regular courses, these science departments predict a swing to the specialized war courses that will more than balance this loss
...marked deck, but it could not overlook the fact that its tactical position on the labor front had not been changed for the worse. Labor, on the other hand, had agreed to give up its only weapon-its right to strike. Some observers were willing to predict that labor chiefs, having maintained the principle of the closed shop, would not make an issue of it again while the U.S. was at war, certainly had no intention of causing the kind of hullabaloo that John L. Lewis had started with his captive coal mine fight. Observers believed also that...
...proposed that President Roosevelt call a meeting of manufacturers and labor leaders, have them agree to voluntary arbitration of disputes. But it was probably too late for such councils now. Just what kind of labor law would finally come out of the angry confusion, no one yet dared to predict...
...Bank of Kodiak boasted a 314% increase in deposits in nine months. Kodiak's weekly newspaper advertised six transfer companies, six cab companies, six restaurants, nine liquor stores and bars, one laundry. How long the boom would last no one would predict. But in Kodiak, only 600 miles from the Arctic Circle, Coca-Cola hopefully erected a bottling works...
Well aware that milers do not reach their peak until they are 25 (Cunningham ran his 4:07.4 when he was 28), track experts predict that up-&-coming MacMitchell may some day run a mile in four minutes flat...