Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giving the folks more training-whether in Cicero or ceramics-adult education has turned itself into a full-fledged profession. More important: it has a future that seems limitless. "I predict," says Malcolm Knowles, administrative coordinator of the A.E.A.. "that the education of adults will become accepted as a public responsibility, just as the education of children is now ... In my opinion, the total budget for adult education of all types will eventually exceed the total expenditures for childhood education." In other words, America will be the place where school is never...
Once the bonds had been explained, many baffling mysteries were solved, and many new weapons appeared in the lockers of the chemists. Now they could predict how a substance would react even when they had no sample of it. They could handle with new assurance the complex organic molecules, whose atoms are arranged like submicroscopic lace in chains, rings and branches. Out of the new techniques grew enormous industries -drugs, plastics and synthetic fibers...
...would be immediately possible. The CEEB approved a September test series at its recent meeting; other exams could also be added making it possible for college applicants to take the Boards at almost any time of the year. It is also possible, with a reasonable degree of accuracy, to predict what a student who takes a September test would do on the same test in March...
...certainly want to provide as much room as we can, but it's hard to predict the number of people who want to attend," William L. Langer '15,. Coolidge Professor of History, said last night. "Since it is the night before the Princeton game, we felt there wouldn't be enough undergraduates at the lecture to warrant the use of larger Sanders Theater," he added...
Members of the History, Government and Economics departments almost unanimously predict a Democratic victory in the Congressional elections tomorrow. In the local elections, they predict victory for Republicans Saltonstall and Herter...