Word: predictibly
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...Escape. Perhaps, he suggested, some country houses might be kept up as national monuments, and others turned into public schools or country clubs. Then he added: "But I predict that we shall see a great revival of community life, and if so, many large country houses may be bought up cheap and turned into monastic or collegiate institutions...
...situation [Rundstedt's attack] is very serious. . . . Our intelligence service broke down completely. They appear to have been unaware of a German force of 200,000 men. . . . Imagine the population of Richmond [200,000] being assembled across the Potomac and we not knowing about it." Asked to predict the war's end, he snorted: "Well, I no longer count by anything but decades. So come back on my 90th birthday and I'll tell...
General Electric displayed it in little cans labeled "Bouncing Putty." What use, if any, this curiosity may have, chemists are not yet prepared to say. But bouncing putty is one of a new class of chemical materials, called silicones, which chemists ecstatically predict have as great a postwar future as radar...
Professor Magoun closed his speech on a gloomy note in expressing his opinion that we were making practically no progress toward these goals. "I confidently predict," he asserted, "World War III... and in your lifetime...
...leading men are not so good as the old stand-bys, but they all have the advantage of freshness. Of course hams like Edward G. Robinson and Wallace Beery are still around to remind us of our Saturday matinee days, but they've gone stale. If you can't predict every line in "Barbary Coast Gent" before it's said, at least you can be be sure of its tenor...