Word: predictibly
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...cube root of his weight; multiply the result by the diameter of his heart (measured by X ray), and multiply again by his leg length. Middle and long-distance runners ought to score over 15,500; sprinters ought to score less. The highest man scored 18,869. "I predict," announced the doctor boldly, "that this student will break the mile record at Helsinki." A good many nonscientists were ready to agree. The high scorer: Britain's standout miler, Roger Bannister, who ran away from the best distance men in the U.S. at the Penn Relays last spring (TIME...
This analysis would lead one to predict a finish of Cleveland, Boston, and New York, in that order. But there is something about the Yankees (I say this although I have disliked the team intensely since I was a small child) which precludes such counting...
...predict overwhelming success for Dr. Mack's prescription for thumb-suckers [TIME, July 9]. The picture of the hay rake in the child's mouth was so terrifying to my 3½-year-old daughter that she hasn't had her thumb in her mouth since...
...control of machinery, respond to light, color, a wisp of smoke-the faintest touch or the feeblest sound. Today, these electrons can follow a chart, a blueprint or a pattern more accurately than the human eye. Some day, they may even respond to smell and taste. Who would dare predict the future? He is a rash man who would limit an art as limitless as space itself...
...Square's largest department store would not predict any price changes. George E. Cole, General Manager of the Coop, would only say that the Society's prices will be "governed by circumstances." J. Press, on the other hand, definitely said that it would pay no attention to price cuts in the Square, and that it is not worried about the situation...