Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether the machine age will ever reach its iron tenacles into the classrooms of schools and colleges--including Harvard--is impossible to predict; but the Fund for the Advancement of Education has made certain that for at least another year, in the basement of Memorial Hall, machines will teach men; matter will rule mind
PREFAB HOUSING sales went over the billion-dollar mark in 1955. Builders sold 93,000 prefabs worth $1.3 billion, predict that totals will hit 120,000 in 1956, and that prefabs will capture 50% of the market...
...those charming, feckless boy-men whom women love and yearn to mother and men find alternately fascinating and exasperating. But from the moment Jason is displayed as a terrified small boy, cringing before the hectoring of his retired-general father, the most cursory student of Medic can predict what is coming-the compulsive lying to cover up innocent misdemeanors, the bad time at public school, where a senior prefect spoils him and thereby earns him the hostility of the whole school and a brutal beating, the intense Jewish girl whose love drives him to deeds of derring-do that secretly...
Buck was taken to Phillips House of Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is resting comfortably. The hospital reported last night that he was "doing very well" but was not able to predict how long he would be disabled by the accident...
Canadian businessmen welcome U.S. investment in Canada, but they voice one frequent complaint: too often Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. firms are run as mere branch plants, financed, directed and staffed from the U.S. head office. In Montreal last week a top U.S. businessman noted this sore point, predicted that it would soon be remedied. Said Warren Lee Pierson, chairman of Trans World Airlines, Inc. and president of the International Chamber of Commerce: "I predict that American enterprises here will increasingly welcome investment, technical and managerial cooperation in Canada...