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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jack Honore, noted University barber, "Perhaps this game will have some effect in relieving the tension and will produce better feeling. I would hardly like to predict a score, but it will probably be large. Upon careful consideration, I might guess that fostering a friendly spirit is not the only purpose of the game, and that more than baseball playing will be done in Cambridge and vicinity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTHORITIES VOICE COMMENDATION OF ATHLETIC REVIVAL | 5/7/1927 | See Source »

...tell also from whom the Duchess learned to Charleston? Don't you know? It happens that I have friends close enough to the Court of St. James's to be able to "guess." I can assure you that the well known intimacy of the Duchess of York and the Prince of Wales is "guessed" to have found fulsome expression in Charleston lessons. May I add that all who knew the Duchess as a girl knew someone very different from the woman she has become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...explanation came, last week, except the guess that enemies of Composer Strauss must have devised this cruel means to hound an old man out of Vienna, to perhaps drive him mad. Herr Strauss has many enemies; for he has played many a practical joke, sometimes leading an orchestra deliberately wrong and then reviling the know-nothing audience when it applauds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joker Joked | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...more important National intercollegiate glee club contest, which I heard here in Chicago? Northwestern, Illinois, Iowa, Purdue, Michigan, Wabash, Knox, Notre Dame, Grinnell and Milliken sang, and sang beautifully. Why the winners of the eastern contest were not there to pit themselves against our melodious Northwestern, I cannot guess. Northwestern won, with Illinois and Iowa tied for second and Purdue third. TIME-would have had something to say if it had only heard those boys sing Schumann's Lotus Flower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...other newspapers at $50,000,000. It is hard to price his vast holdings in Mexican realty, but $10,000,000 would not be overrating them. And much property in California and elsewhere must be added. Shrinking the total to be thoroughly conservative, a guesser might safely guess that Mr. Hearst is worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smart Money | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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