Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems safe to predict that they will never be formulated. At least, they should never be. The mobile and plastic character of youth defy all weighing and balancing with an eye to future usefulness. How often have contemporary judgments of youth shown the futility of the attempt! Many a young firebrand, after showing great promise, has drifted out of sight and has never been heard of more; many an obscure thinker and plodder has surprised an indifferent world with bursts of unsuspected power...
...defeating the Tiger sextet by the decisive score of 4 to 0 Saturday, the Yale hockey team demonstrated that early season predictions concerning its strength were not exaggerated. Hockey experts who saw the game predict that the University six will have to be at the top of its form next Saturday night in order to outscore the New Haven skaters...
...quite differently. Industrial news continues to become more encour- aging. Last week, the copper industry began to cheer up, as the iron and steel industry had already done. Yet prospects of any industrial boom are still far away, and the slowly rising market for most industrial securities seems to predict a powerful although quite grad- ual improvement in industry itself next spring...
...good government of foreign brand. Every honest observer admits that English organization did wonders for Egypt and that two years of Egyptian independence have performed greater marvels in restoring the chaos of the seventies. Now that Egypt has surrendered to the British demands, both London and Paris newspapers predict a restoration of the protectorate. To haunt the British mind anew, the ghost of Cecil Rhodes has been seen in Downing Street with the Cape-to-Cairo project under...
...uncertainty about the injured players makes it difficult to predict what lineup Coach Fisher will start against Brown on Saturday. Nothing new could be learned yesterday regarding Daley, Adie, or, Cheek. The fact that none of these three are even reporting at Soldiers Field, however, makes it certain that they will not face Brown and doubtful whether they will see action against the Elis. Gehrke is known to be nearly ready for play, but using him this week would be pushing things too fast...