Word: predictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...essential part of the Neo-Malthusian creed is the conviction that people will multiply blindly (like fruit flies) as long as they get enough food. Biologists can put a few fruit flies in an air-conditioned bottle, give them the same amount of food each day, and predict pretty accurately how fast they will breed. The fly population grows until there are just enough flies to eat up the daily food. Only then does the colony stop growing...
...TYPE, YOU HAVE ACHIEVED, I BELIEVE, THE WORLD'S RECORD FOR MAKING THE MOST ERRORS IN THE SMALLEST SPACE. I REFER TO TIME, OCT. 18, IN WHICH YOU STATE THAT IN A POLL OF 51 MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, PRESIDENT TRUMAN WAS THE ONLY MEMBER TO PREDICT HIS OWN VICTORY. YOU DESCRIBED MR. TRUMAN AS A "LIFETIME" MEMBER OF THE CLUB...
...real fight remained and would continue to be waged right up to Election Day-the fight for control of the Senate (TIME, Oct. 11). It was still such a dingdong race in twelve doubtful states, that no one dared predict its outcome. If the Republicans failed to return a majority to the senior chamber of the 81st Congress, they would be unable to run its all-important committees. This fight, in fact, was a prime reason why Harry Truman and Tom Dewey took to the road last week (see below). Dewey, especially, was campaigning not so much...
...Sales Predict Large Crowd...
...tipped him off that the "insiders" rigged the market every day, using a code that in recent years had appeared in the Bringing Up Father comic strip. Said Goldsmith: "It took me an awfully long time to break the code, but once I did, it was simple to predict the market with 90 to 95% accuracy...