Word: predictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...denying that the music has bombast in it, and Horowitz, who has hardly been noted as an apostle of restraint, is merely running true to form when he exploits the bombast. Whether this performance will not begin to irritate after the fifth or sixth playing is hard to predict, but I incline to think it will. Technically, the recording is excellent except for an occasional scratchy surface and that unpleasant wavery effect toward the end of the second movement...
Connover feels that this is the last bit of cold weather that we will have this winter. Although he refuses to predict the date of the arrival of spring, he says that warmer weather is due from now on, and expects the first of it today...
...Propellers, not engines, will provide the bottleneck in the horsepower race. While military motors may conceivably double in horsepower, a propeller reaching sonic speed (750 m.p.h.) is shackled by a destructive drag. Many predict that jet propulsion (as in "rocket ships") will be required for airplane performance over 500 m.p.h...
...propaganda rallied more & more blacks to the cause, Haile Selassie and his forces took Danghila, south of Lake Tana and only 200 miles from Addis Ababa. Djibouti, the capital's port on the Gulf of Aden, was reported crowded with Italian refugees, and British military spokesmen began to predict a hasty Italian withdrawal to Addis Ababa for a strong last stand...
...N.Y.A. administration are to be determined by the College and since the methods of application vary from institution, it is impossible to state exactly what the Work Program would consist of at Harvard. However, using the experiences of other colleges as a standard of judgement, it is possible to predict a composite picture of N.Y.A. in the Yard...