Word: predictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ultimate destination will be the Administration building on the Wellesley campus. There the tron-legged victors are to receive their awards from a committee of Wellesleyites. Pre-race forecasts from Dunster hint at a warm reception, and many observers predict a new record for the distance...
...Willkie is a dark quadruped who wants to go back to the horse and buggy days. I make my living cleaning up on the horses, and I predict Willkie will sweep Maine, Vermont, and the Business School...
...That's a horse of a different color," he replied. "I pick up quite a bit of inside dope in my line, and I predict a photo finish. So long. I've got to go see a man about the north end of a south bound Percheron." Hu Flung Huey's Big Four Roosevelt over Willkie Saltonstall over Dever Harvard over Yale Babson over my dead body
While even Army officials are unable to predict exactly how the Personnel Department will work, it is obvious that many technical jobs must be filled with draftees. College students will have an advantage in gaining these, and those with special training may be able to direct themselves into the particular branch they desire...
Since cultures develop uniformly, the course of an unfinished cycle can be predicted. As early as 1911, when his great work was conceived, Spengler foresaw for Western1 culture 1) not only World War I but World War II, III. . . :) the coming Caesars, victors over Capital; 3) declining birth rates; 4) decay of art from high style to petty cult problems; 5) budgets of billions not millions; 6) suicidal crumbling of democracy, etc. He did not predict imminent collapse of Western civilization. Said solemn Prophet Spengler: "We are still many generations short of that point...