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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with him. Forthwith, the President, who has recently been revealing his human side to the nation, invited Mr. Rogers to spend the night at the White House. The funnyman arrived, dined, told some of his "Worst Stories," slept, left the next morning. Mr. Rogers then informed the press: "I guess I was too much for him. We sat around in the living-room upstairs, swapping yarns, but by 8 o'clock he started to yawn and by 10 o'clock he had fallen asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Lake Zoar, near New London, Conn., Sergeant W. E. Bushy of the state police cast bread upon the waters, literally. He was hunting for the body of a Mrs. George Lewis. Recalling a traditional procedure,† he set five loaves adrift, having to guess where to start them as Mrs. Lewis had drowned unseen, while fishing, her empty boat being the only clue. Four loaves floated idly about. One came to a purposeful halt. Grappling beneath the arrested loaf, Sergeant Bushy brought up Mrs. Lewis's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bread & Corpse | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...newsgatherer, sharp of ear, might have imagined he heard snatches of momentous conversation: "Uh-huh. . . .No, peas. . . . Uh? . . .Yes, I guess I will.. . . Vichy, unless we can get White Rock, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Conference | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...station having their mud-caked clothes cut from their backs. In their cloth caps was scrawled this legend: "If we are dead when you find us, we are saved." Propped up in bed at home, Randolph Cobb told a terse, simple story: "We laid there till Friday morning, I guess, and then we all got victory from God except James. He failed.. We prayed on then until Sunday morning. We had only our carbide lamps. I told them I was going to do some writing. I turned to James and said, 'Roy, are you right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Victory | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...last few issues of TIME, these words, which I cannot find in my Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, have been used. By the context of sentences, I can guess at their meanings. Will you kindly define them, either by letter, or in TIME, or refer me to the dictionary used in your editorial rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 2, 1926 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

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