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Word: predictions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he had first gone to Minneapolis, from St. Andrew's Memorial Church, Yonkers, N. Y., his good friend the late John Pierpont Morgan,* said to him: " You'll not be happy in a town of 300,000 inhabitants. New York is where you belong. You'll stay, I predict, no more than six months in Minneapolis." He stayed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Washington Cathedral | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

Critics retaliated, picking cobb's worst, such as: "I've just learned that that distinguished bookworm, Mr. Gene Tunney, reads my stuff, so now I am moved more strongly than ever to predict that, in the event of a third meeting between him and Mr. Dempsey, the result will be another triumph for clean literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Paragrapher | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...military affairs, as well as a cabinet. This new regime marks the beginning of a new future for the Nationalist cause, i. e., the unification of China under a single democratic and Nationalist government, but how bright that future is with strong Northern forces dominating it, none can predict. It marks, too, a definite break with Moscow and Bolshevism and leaves the movement apparently free of internal dissension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Fusion | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Kelley and Burns played football at Exeter, the former being somewhat obscured in the academy ranks after a brilliant career at Winchester High, while the latter never attained first string rating among his schoolboy teammates. The possibilities of either as a first string college pilot are very difficult to predict. Close followers of the sport for the last few years have been surprised this year to see Kelley holding down the team A assignment. The coaches have so far made no comment on the quarterback situation and the purport of the reports that have proceeded from the scrimmages has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

...addition to Simonds, Stewart, Parkinson, and Shapiro. Coaches Corney and Dunne have one other experienced guard at their disposal this fall, B. C. Tripp '28. Tripp's gridiron career since he entered college has been a series of ups and downs, and it is very difficult to predict anything about his possibilities this year. He played more or less regularly on the 1928 first year team and in his Sophomore year rose rapidly to University and first team standing. He started the 1925 game at Princeton in one of the guard positions, but in the shake up following the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 9/27/1927 | See Source »

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