Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After days of heated discussion, the doctors agreed that the steroids are still a deep mystery. They control in some way many vital activities of the body, especially those concerned with reproduction and growth. But no one knows how they work. No doctor can predict for sure how each patient will be affected. Until the central facts have been discovered, the experts agreed at Cuernavaca, the steroids will remain an exciting, disorderly frontier of medical science...
...retailers' convention in Manhattan last week, Botany Mills' President Charles F. H. Johnson stood up and asked: "How can anyone gauge or predict market trends without knowing what bewildering statements will be issued?" On four different occasions, said Johnson, Government spokesmen, by sounding off on Government buying plans which failed to develop, had sent wool prices soaring. Cried Johnson: "Here is a perfect example of inflation by publication...
Ulbricht & Co. predict that they will oust 25% of the party's functionaries, 10% of its rank & file members, be left with a tighter, handier Communist Party. But if Stalin knew what he was talking about, the saddle was still likely...
Since swimming runs truer to form than most sports, it is fairly safe to predict that the Crimson will go into the Yale meet undefeated...
Balanced but Unpredictable. Calder never works his mobiles out mathematically in advance. He calculates the delicate balances of each part by the cut-and-try method. "It's like making a patchwork quilt," he says. "You can't predict...