Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's cabinet.f Those who propose this innovation declare that the administrative functions of the new-Department need in no way infringe upon the educational rights of individual states. They tell people who oppose it that their opposition arises from blindness to the blessings of Federal assistance. They predict bigger and better national education weeks, governmental eradication of illiteracy, substitution of the well-equipped district school (perhaps with motor transport for distant pupils) for the ill-equipped "little red schoolhouse." The dissenters are commonly said to be persons interested in private and parochial schools, persons suspicious of Federal...
Swift & Co. has announced that it does not intend in the future to handle grocery articles. Wilson & Co. and Cudahy & Co. have no intention of reengaging in the business. After Armour & Co. there is more doubt, although many predict that they too will not resume grocery wholesaling...
...height a trial. New Yorkers look forward eagerly to a city two or three times thicker in cross-section than it is now, evidently willing to put up with vertical existence for the satisfaction of saying that they live in the biggest city in the world. Meanwhile crystal gazers predict that the decentralization of New York must come about some day, not with the consent of the inhabitants to be sure, but in spite...
Other scientists and sociologists spoke, some cautiously, some daringly. A British doctor went so far as to advocate, and predict, not only the general adoption of contraceptive practices, but even the killing of defective babies at birth. An insurance statistician, Dr. Louis I. Dublin of Manhattan, was invited to present opposite views. He did so. declaring the population rise of the U. S. was no menace; indeed, the birth rate of the native population was steadily decreasing. He suggested that U. S. birth controllers bend their energies toward encouraging larger families among the well...
...swift spread of the radio habit in the U. S., coupled with the heavy increase in the sale of radio equipment, has led many business men to predict a similar expansion in Europe...