Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those dog days, "The team had played poorly; the line had been disorganized; the backs, ineffective." Harvard had not beaten Princeton in seven long, lean years. Sportswriters throughout the nation were calling the Tigers one of the best teams in the nation, and even the gamblers were reluctant to predict what the final outcome would be when the mighty Orange and Black team met "Hapless Harvard...
...difficult to predict the result of this new offensive. If, in spite of the tremendous odds against a Russian agreement to an arms census, disarmament did take place, there would be a great saving in money and human life--and Atom Bomb Number Forty-Seven would never be exploded...
Boston political observers predict that present Mayor John B. Hynes will win easily. But Hynes supporters are a bit uneasy. "A great many people think that this election is all over." Hynes told his workers last night. "You and I know it is not. It won't be over until the votes are counted...
...Open, a friendly rivalry has sprung up among the professors to see whose half-year course can take the longest. Present leader is a social science course on Thought and Institutions, which takes more time to put forth its material than even the most optimistic sociologist would hope to predict...
...indulging in innuendo and trying to alibi the past, he would announce the firm determination that under no conditions . . . would the U.S. permit Formosa to fall in Red hands or Communist China to be seated in the U.N. This simple and understandable assurance he has never given. I predict he never will...