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...Willkie is a dark quadruped who wants to go back to the horse and buggy days. I make my living cleaning up on the horses, and I predict Willkie will sweep Maine, Vermont, and the Business School...
While even Army officials are unable to predict exactly how the Personnel Department will work, it is obvious that many technical jobs must be filled with draftees. College students will have an advantage in gaining these, and those with special training may be able to direct themselves into the particular branch they desire...
...lose the conviction that it is only by supreme and superb exertions, unwearied and indomitable, that we shall save our souls alive. No one can predict or even imagine how this terrible war against German and Nazi aggression will run its course...
Gruff Hugh S. Johnson, who regards polls as public evils "not to be swallowed whole," offered to eat his syndicated Scripps-Howard column if the Gallup poll should prove correct this fall. Dr. George Horace Gallup accepted and replied: "My newspaper existence will end if I fail to predict the election correctly, but General Johnson will only have to eat a page* of newspaper print...
Since cultures develop uniformly, the course of an unfinished cycle can be predicted. As early as 1911, when his great work was conceived, Spengler foresaw for Western1 culture 1) not only World War I but World War II, III. . . :) the coming Caesars, victors over Capital; 3) declining birth rates; 4) decay of art from high style to petty cult problems; 5) budgets of billions not millions; 6) suicidal crumbling of democracy, etc. He did not predict imminent collapse of Western civilization. Said solemn Prophet Spengler: "We are still many generations short of that point...