Word: predictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safe to predict that neither program will be as sensational as the career of Wyllis Cooper, veteran radio dramaturge who writes NBC's show. From 1933 to 1936 Radioman Cooper wrote and directed the silo-of-blood programs called Lights Out. Late at night, so children couldn't hear them and have their little livers scared out of them, they gushed from Chicago's WMAQ and were beyond doubt the most goose-fleshing chiller-dillers in air history. At each broadcast's opening a deep, dark, dank voice would instruct listeners to put their lights...
Lyford of the Boston Post: "It looks like another sensational victory for legit journalism . . . I predict the Crime...
COUNTRY NOTES IN WARTIME-V. Sackvllle-West - Doubleday, Doran . ($ I). The title & author fully predict the content: meditations, deliberately minor and pacific, tenderly written. For those who want loud talk for loud times, she explains: "My only excuse can be that the determination to preserve such beauty as remains to us is also a form of courage...
...distinct "niches," which vary-from treetop to root, from tree to tree-in temperature, humidity, vegetation, sunlight. Every niche has its animals, every animal its niche. Thus, for example, "If you know the distribution of either the forest, the malaria, or the mosquito alone, you will be able to predict the range and incidence of the other two. In fact, this applies . . . to any animals, plants, diseases, and so forth...
...William Turner and Gabriel Goldstein of Columbia University inexpensively removed the desirable tobacco fragrance. This can then be put into the mild, golden leaves with little fragrance now favored by tobacco buyers. Mild leaves now require a factory flavoring of coumarin (from sweet clover) and vanillin. The two chemists predict that cigarets will soon have a genuine tobacco flavor-provided the public likes them that...