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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said this? One guess might be Behaviorist John Broadus Watson, or some other man who likes the sound of the words "Neurosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Senate. I was selected by Mr. Hoover's friends to preside over the National Convention that nominated him. I shall go to Palo Alto to deliver the speech of notification. I see that it is useless to remain in the campaign after that. So I guess I will take the first steamer to Europe and rest!" But the campaigners dined late that night at the Harvard Club and in the course of the evening Senator Moses was persuaded to accept a new title-Vice Chairman of the Advisory Committee. Dr. Work remained chairman of this body, ex-officio. Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strong-Minded Men | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...liner did not put out a lifeboat until the man had been sighted, nor would there, under any circumstances, be any point in so doing. The man -is not now married; his former wife's name is not Jeanne but Eugenia. Perhaps as you say "no one could guess why Morgan (wrong again) Hoyt should have wished to leave J:he bright (?) ship," etc., but some of them seem to have made a pretty good job of trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...fair guess that after this treaty is ratified the United States-which scrapped its ships and has constantly tried to reduce armaments-will be told by Great Britain-the nation having the world's greatest navy, and refusing to reduce at Geneva last summer-that because of this treaty we should make ourselves navally impotent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Triumph of Kellogg | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...McMichael Hoyt; his wife is Jeanne Bankhead, sister to Tallulah; his brother, Henry M. Hoyt Jr., had committed suicide eight years ago; his sisters are Nancy Hoyt, writer of sophisticated fiction (Roundabout, Unkind Star), and Elinor Wylie, poetess (Nets to Catch the Wind), novelist (Jennifer Lorn). No one could guess precisely why Morgan Hoyt should have wished to leave the bright ship and the people who were chatting on the deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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