Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bound volume of Punch or Life ?and you can study dispassionately the periodicity of recurrence of all our jokes. Some jokes repeat every two or three years, others (like Halley's Comet) take longer. A little luck?and you can predict unerringly just what grey-bearded quips will march from the storehouse to reappear, all reglanded and mineralaved, in The Naughtinesses of 1924. Then there are the political cartoons?stings drawn by time? bringing only a philosophic wonder to the mind. The editorials in the weeklies?"the country will be ruined should B be elected, should...
Flying in two airplanes over the craters of Mt. Etna, Italian scientists were able to gather sufficient data to predict the end of volcanic disturbances. A number of photographs of the greatest value were taken, and observations made of the direction of lava streams may render practicable the erection of artificial barriers to check or eliminate future disasters...
...always a difficult matter to predict the outcome of the former race, since the seating order is usually not known until the last minute, and all pre-race practice is forbidden. Two years ago Yale won, but last June the Crimson graduates took the measure of their rivals by a full length...
...hearts of men en masse, but rather to the inner spirit of each individual. "He banished political methods from His teaching." This individualistic, Protestant type of Christianity, with its adaptability to a modern, scientific and industrial age, is decidedly not a spent force. "This, we may venture to predict, is the Christianity of the future, as it was the first Christianity," declares the Dean, at the end of his very outspoken essay...
King Christian and Queen Alexandrina will celebrate their silver wedding on April 26. The doctors attending the Queen predict that she will have completely recovered from her operation by that date...