Word: predict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief purpose up here is not marking papers," Dyer pointed out. "What we're trying to do at present is to explore individual differences by means of statistical research. We predict the academic rank of each freshman after registration and then follow up his record. Our predictions are usually 78 percent accurate within a certain area...
Called "Autobiography-2000 A.D.," the questionnaire asked students to predict what would happen to them in the next 50 years. Questions included, "How do you expect to die?" "What is the worst thing that will probably happen to you?" and "Do you expect to got divorced...
Selective Service Headquarters were unwilling to predict yesterday whether the draft would definitely be called off and the boards closed...
...skiing enthusiasts in the Eastern states have something to look forward to. The New York City weather man retired as of January 1 and both the new man and the Farmer's Almanac predict snow before the end of the month...
...breast and wailing about the hard times. There is plenty of reason for wailing. Studios like Warner and RKO are carrying on only token operations; Eagle-Lion has suspended production. The foreign market is shot, the cost of making pictures has risen skyhigh, like everything else, and who can predict what damage television will eventually do to the movie industry...