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Word: predictive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This analysis would lead one to predict a finish of Cleveland, Boston, and New York, in that order. But there is something about the Yankees (I say this although I have disliked the team intensely since I was a small child) which precludes such counting...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 8/2/1951 | See Source »

...predict overwhelming success for Dr. Mack's prescription for thumb-suckers [TIME, July 9]. The picture of the hay rake in the child's mouth was so terrifying to my 3½-year-old daughter that she hasn't had her thumb in her mouth since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 30, 1951 | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...control of machinery, respond to light, color, a wisp of smoke-the faintest touch or the feeblest sound. Today, these electrons can follow a chart, a blueprint or a pattern more accurately than the human eye. Some day, they may even respond to smell and taste. Who would dare predict the future? He is a rash man who would limit an art as limitless as space itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: The General | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...Square's largest department store would not predict any price changes. George E. Cole, General Manager of the Coop, would only say that the Society's prices will be "governed by circumstances." J. Press, on the other hand, definitely said that it would pay no attention to price cuts in the Square, and that it is not worried about the situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sears Roebuck Slashes Prices But Merchants in Square Remain Firm | 6/5/1951 | See Source »

...really not enough for the kind of music Stanger chooses to present. But the players have been willing to work hard, and they take their music seriously. They have probably inspired Mr. Stanger as much as he has inspired them. And with this kind of inner harmony, one can predict that the past season marks the beginning of a new era for the organization. --lower case

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

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