Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though it is impossible to predict where it will fall, since most of the earth is water and uninhabited land, the fall may not be within human eyesight, Dr. Spitz asserted. He said that the flash would be brilliant at night and possibly so bright that it could be visible in the daytime...
...Moscow press conference, the Russian space scientists cautiously discussed future plans and projects. They would not predict when the next Sputnik would be launched. Several more dogs will be shot into space, said Pokrovsky, before risking a live human...
Buoyed by her current rave notices, she will not predict when she will retire, although she already has her final play picked out: Cockadoodle Daisy, written for her by husband Charlie, who drew on the life of Lady Elsie Mendl, the acrobatic nonagenarian decorator who wore her hair blue and regularly stood on her head. "But I'm not ready yet," says Actress Hayes. "After all, I'm only 57, and Lady Mendl lived to be over 90. I think I'll put it off for a while...
...pleading for mathematics I am not recommending that they replace other basic subjects. Let them replace things like 'how to have a successful date' and 'how can my home be made democratic' and 'how to predict business trends.' We need foreign languages now more than ever. We need history and geography. We need ability to read, write and speak and think clearly . . . How fortunate it is that Galileo, Newton, Beethoven, Faraday and Pasteur had not been taught to work in an 'atmosphere of social awareness...
After encountering some wary refusals to serve, President Eisenhower last week named the six members of a bipartisan Civil Rights Commission created by this year's Civil Rights Act. Since the commission is a new instrument of Government, no one dared predict just how much it could accomplish, but almost everyone agreed that Ike had staffed it with earnest and judicially minded men. ¶ Commission chairman: former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed, 72, who retired last February. Kentuckian Reed concurred in the Supreme Court school-desegregation decision of 1954, wrote the majority opinion that outlawed the Southern...