Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considering means of raising $8,700,000 for the schools. It was also faced with a proposal to allot $3,000,000 in State aid to Roman Catholic parochial schools, the Catholics holding that they are entitled to aid since they pay taxes for public schools. Aid failing, they predict that Ohio's public schools will be swamped with 171,305 Catholic children. ¶ Last Spring, with U. S. city school costs deflated by $73,000,000 and rural schools by $39,000,000, some 2,500 schools were closed early to 290,000 children. At the same time...
...little symbol e representing a quantum began seriously to restrict the old free & easy mechanics. Nevertheless the work of reconciliation began. Denmark's Niels Bohr ingeniously yoked classical laws and quantum laws to predict the probable interorbital jumps of electrons. His famed Correspondence Principle was postulated in 1913, was later abandoned when it was found not to work for atoms having more than one electron...
...Tribune Co. from selling to the Herald. On the crucial day, Washington newsreaders were treated to an extraordinary sight. The Gumps, Winkles, Tracy, et al. appeared in the Herald, and also in the Post. Everyone knew that one of the dailies would have to drop them, but none could predict which...
...soon Balbo's squadron might reach the U. S., once it started, even he would not predict. Given fair weather all the way it could make the seven jumps in a week or ten days. But peasoup fogs boil up around Labrador, and General Balbo has flatly stated that he will turn back rather than foolishly risk a ship. Yet, if he decides to go ahead, he has no patience with a crew which fails to keep its plane where it belongs. His orders: "Arrive with the plane or don't arrive...
...others were receiving diplomas at the hands of Chancellor Hill of the University of Georgia. First called, honor student, Samuel H. Sibley, now Justice of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, New Orleans. Says the Chancellor: "Sam, you are a brilliant, fine boy, etc, and I predict a life of great achievement for you. I'm proud, etc. etc." Next, alphabetically next. Gene Black. The Chancellor hesitated, looked at Gene, tried to begin, hesitated, hummed, then gave up and said "God bless you Gene...