Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rival elevens, then, taken as a whole, match up very evenly, which makes it almost impossible to predict a victory for either side. The general feeling gives Harvard a small margin, but a single break can turn the tables
...public interest in the work of his department. The microphone has no terrors for him. Broad casting under the auspices of the Aeronautics Department of New York Uni versity, he gave last week as chatty and graphic a talk as the wireless has ever carried to listening thousands. "I predict air transportation at a cost of less than 30c a ton mile. I predict a Nation-wide connecting-up of all important commercial and industrial cen tres with air mail operating at night between such centres as are approximately 1,000 miles anp.rt...
...Harvard football since the Middlebury game three weeks ago. Tickets and admissions are also on sale at Cambridge and Boston agencies, and will be sold at the gates of Soldiers Field on Saturday afternoon as well. Mr. C. F. Getchell of the H. A. A. was unable to predict the exact number of these last minute sales, but believes that they will bring the total number of Stadium spectators on Saturday well over the 25,000 mark...
Professor Abbott declared that there were many laborers who adhered to Conservative or Liberal principles and that the English parties are coming more and more to represent honest differences of opinion. He predict a future modification of the Labor party into something less radical as it certainly could not go on as a class organization. "This modified party and the Conservative party will probably be the two great parties of the future", he said, "There will be no Liberal-Labor combines or Liberal-Conservative coalitions, but the opponent of the Conservative party will probably have many of the characteristics...
...membership," he said, provided every conservative votes. At the last election thousands of conservative votes were lost by the failure of the voters to attend the polls." Professor Abbott went on to speak of several of his personal friends who had not voted at that time. He did not predict a conservative majority in the House of Commons. He said that Winston Churchill had a good chance of keeping his seat...