Word: predictable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affect each other as they circle around the Sun and make their orbits slightly irregular. It was man's mathematical ability to measure such orbital variations that permitted Astronomer Lowell to declare that an unknown planet was butting Neptune's orbit out of its regularly irregular shape and to predict just where in the heavens a sufficiently powerful telescope, which did not exist during his life, would reveal...
...next year, President Coolidge made his single Supreme Court appointment in the person of Harlan Fiske Stone, now the youngest Justice (aged 57). President Harding, in less than two years, named a chief justice, three associate justices. Insurance actuaries, surveying the present court membership (average age, 69), would predict that President Hoover would have at least as many Supreme appointments to make during his term...
...tapes, in time destroy them, literally by bombardment. In addition the heat generated chars the insulation and disintegrates the oils so that the combined effects have made high voltage cables the most unreliable link in the present electric power system No adequate test has yet been developed which will predict whether a cable will operate for any reasonable time...
...what manner "civil disobedience" was to start. The Nationalist congressmen, who venerate Saint Gandhi with almost religious fervor, but do not always do what he wants, argued secretly for six hours, intimated they would give him the appointment he desired. Thus proceeded the vast trouble which some observers predict will be the worst world-trouble of this decade...