Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into Paraguay across the eastern boundary, the Paraguay River. When we got there we told them how there were a lot of Bolivians sitting in forts in the middle of Paraguay, and that vexed them a bit. It was the first they'd heard of it, I guess...
Geographically it is interesting that Santiago. Chile, on the West Coast of South America, is due south of Boston, on the East Coast of North America. In other words the whole South American Continent lies thousands of miles farther East than most U. S. citizens would guess...
...foresee at least the old pattern of passion, quarrel, and reconciliation. And since all stories are old stories, the pattern you foresaw is here, but since some never become familiar you would hardly foresee the patient, particular realism which makes this German "Enoch Arden" into living, modern truth, or guess the force of the emotion shaping the layers of incident to an ending stripped of grandiloquence. Struggling to get out of Siberia, the two comrades (there are only three people in the cast) thirst in a desert composed obviously of flour, shavings, and papier-mâché; their thirst...
Readers have been asked to pick in advance the 24 teams which would emerge victorious from a list of 24 scheduled football games. The Court observed that the chances against success in making this guess were 282, 429, 536, 481 to one. Nonetheless several satisfied Britons have guessed right, during the past season, thus winning prizes...
...Line of boats, painted the cabins a delicate green with pearl trimmings; the cornices and arches, lilac, pink, and pearl; and as admiral laden with gold braid he stood gloriously on the bridge issuing resonant (though meaningless) nautical orders. His twinkling justification: "If Vanderbilt's a commodore, I guess I ought to rank as admiral." But colonel he actually was-the ninth division, short of men and funds, had gladly elected him, and he paraded with pomp and fanfare. In splendid military regalia he escorted shabby President Grant to a Boston jubilee, where many mistook him for president...