Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gauntlet of Fire. No airman can predict the kill rate if the attack force of 900 Soviet bombers strikes. "There are," said General Chidlaw, "too many intangible factors. Obviously, if the enemy struck in perfect weather and in small numbers, we'd do a most creditable job in cleaning him up ... Bad weather and a tremendous mass of enemy planes might give us a hard time." Currently, U.S. defenses have serious defects: ¶ The Skysweeper guns cannot shoot fast enough to hit a supersonic jet or far enough to defend a target, as the gun's range...
Observers predict, consequently, that the N.C.A.A.'s convention in New York on January 5-7 will see the final breaking-away of the Big Ten, and perhaps also the Pacific Coast Conference, in order to set up their own, more liberal, television policies on a regional basic...
...ability, then, to predict which students are capable of college work is essential; now, Bender points out, "We have very blunt instruments, indeed, for prediction...
...early to predict accurately just how well Harvard will do this season. It can't do much worse than it has done the past few years, but this will be a building year for Wilson, and he will be happy if it just finished higher than last place, a not too impossible feat...
...Hall as a freshman. Pusey has several times in the past year stated that the University must soon decide what size it is to be. To provide for further increases the present facilities must soon be expanded through building of new houses and dormitories. In the next decade, experts predict that the demand for college education will increase two-fold...