Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predict the course of the stock market, Wall Streeters have tried everything from the height of tides to the frequency of sunspots. The most practical tools are charts that show the price changes of individual stocks as well as the action of the market as a whole. Chartists are powers in the Street; on what their charts show, institutions, mutual funds and thousands of individual investors buy and sell. In this select group of experts, who can often send a stock zipping up-or down -the leading chartist is generally recognized to be Edmund W. Tabell, 55, the tall...
Although the Crimson has defeated Syracuse fairly regularly in this opener, the first race of a season is always dangerous to predict. This is particularly true now, since reports that only three of last year's six returning lettermen made the first boat this spring indicates strong inter-squad competition, an experience familiar to the Crimson, also...
...Bourbon monarchy once he himself disappears from the scene, and virtually all Spaniards, save the Communists, pay lip service to this plan. Yet in Spain's cafés, Franco's followers and foes whisper of the day after his death in another vein. Fearfully, they predict: "Back to the streets with pistols...
...photographs give astronomers a sort of three-dimensional picture of the violent energy processes in the sun's atmosphere. Eventually, such rocket photography may become so refined that meteorologists may be able to make daily solar weather reports as a matter of routine to help them predict earth's weather...
...this time, the visual language of the basic western had been written. The Good Guy wore a white hat, the Bad Guy wore a black hat. G.G. was clean-shaven, B.G. had 5 o'clock shadow, and an experienced horse fan could predict the depth of the villain's depravity by checking the length of his sideburns. The villain chased the hero from right to left, but when the hero was winning, he was naturally headed right (with his pistol hand closest to the camera). Anybody shot was assumed dead, unless the audience was notified to the contrary...