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...Aviation is still in the process of development, and it is very hard to predict its future. Take for example the case of the helicopter. For years they have been endeavoring to perfect a ship which will land perpendicularly, but as yet they have been unsuccessful. While the helicopter makes a nice, little sport machine, I doubt if it will ever be developed as a practical means of eliminating the necessity of a large landing field. Still, things which we thought impossible 20 years ago have now become commonplace, and we really cannot tell what may eventually develop...
...years. As a result, it has been possible to design overhead transmission lines to operate at 220,000 volts. Transformers are built to operate up to 500,000 volts. Furthermore, when lines, transformers, and generators, or switches and similar apparatus are put into service, it is almost safe to predict that they will operate indefinitely without electrical break-down, unless the insulation is damaged by some abnormal electrical surge such as lightning strokes, or high voltages induced in the system by short circuits, or arcing grounds. With underground cables, however, the situation is entirely different. In the first place...
Said Senator Borah (great Hoover-Prohibition orator who was said to have been offered the Attorney-Generalship before Mr. Mitchell): "It [the snoop system] cannot be justified upon any theory of law or justice or expediency. ... I predict that the system will be discontinued. ... It involves fake or fraudulent commitments. . . . These commitments must involve the courts. I would not hesitate to vote to impeach a judge who had signed or issued such papers. . . . It is about 300 years behind the times in prison management...
...year now have fashions been cruel to the heavy. With dress designers concentrating on eliminating all the differences between the shadow cast by a woman and the shadow cast by a barber's pole, women of generous poundage have been consistently unfortunate. Present fashion forecasts, it is true, predict that the straight line will this year make some concessions to the curve. But even such contours as may be established will probably be willowy rather than rotund, graceful rather than pronounced...
...Saturday night are hereby advised to put in an appearance at the Boston Garden for the eleventh of a series of indoor triangular college meets. Dartmouth and Cornell are sending strong teams to combat Harvard, but from information that has come to me I am willing to predict that it will take some remarkable performances to beat the Crimson...