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...means to so zestful a plunger in statescraft as Winston Churchill may be sensed by recalling that eleven months ago the Laborites were tearing his estimates to tatters. At that time the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden, the only Laborite ever to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, declared formally: "I predict that ... the Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] will find himself having to face the country with a deficit...
...First, I deny that any man can predict the time or place of the next earthquake in California. . . . Southern California is but a small spot along the great...
...vous plait without which no galleries will be filled. We all know now what a lot of nasty feminist propaganda this is. Give Cecil Dixon the eyes wistful and blue, and riding breeches that fit in that certain way, and about nine o'clock it becomes fairly easy to predict the chances of our side...
with the subject mater of the remaining chapters: "The Lungs and the Blood," "Speed, Strength and Endurance," where-in the sprinter learns that scientists can predict his times from only two or three "medical" observations, and so on. Nor do all these facts and thoughts stick out like a sore thumb in the book, as they do here. Far from that, they form part of the fabric of the text, and all contribute to give the reader a clearer and broader view of the place that he and his body, and all "living machinery" hold in the scheme of things...
Said Mr. Garner: "I want to predict right now that after this bill goes to the Senate and comes back to the House in conference, it will carry reductions of between $400,000,000 and $500,000,000. ... We must have a little steel down the back of the House conferees and maintain the bill we finally pass. ... I haven't the slightest fear but that reductions can go between $300,000,000 and $350,000,000 and still have a surplus...