Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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More moderate critics regard the House Plan as a move which will, by various checks and balances, avoid either of these extremes. Little is safe to predict other than that the housing quarters will be newer than the present dormitories, the Yard will no longer be the center of domiciliary attraction, the restaurants on the Square will lose money, the Houses will supplant the classes in intra-mural rivalry, the members of the undergraduate body and the faculty will be in a more favorable position for the development of mutual understanding, and real estate prices on the Charles will rise...
...should Artist Kreisler stand on the corner of 42nd Street and Broadway in the guise of a beggar and play the "Caprice Viennois" I predict that he would assemble one of the biggest listening audiences ever to crowd this corner, until he was chased by Whalencops...
...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...