Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sceptre to the Nordics by making constitutional knowledge prerequisite to the ballot, in which case Negro political aspirants are asked what is meant by the four kinds of ex post facto laws as set forth in the case of Calder v. Bull. One grinned his reply: "Boss, Ah guess dat means us niggers don't vote...
...peasant's son, a bad boy at school, at college a passionate disciple of Professor Masaryk, later a starveling pamphleteer at Paris, Dr. Benes was one of the first men to guess which way the World War would jump...
...such as England now faces. The new industrial South is likely to bring to bear upon the Federal Government the growing pains of economic regeneration. In none of these fields is the government now active. In all of them, country-wide opinion needs little more than crystallization. One can guess that new fevers will in reasonable time rack the now inert parties...
Massachusetts requires an annual statement of the Ford Motor Co. That statement filed last April showed their assets to be $742,913,568, surplus $622,366,893 (TIME, April 19). For a fortnight statisticians wiggled estimates and surmises around these figures, guessed variously at Ford profits. The best guess was that he made from $45 to $55 a car. Ford and his staff kept silent...
...does hammer all around his nailheads and sit on a rafter reading Homer and Aeschylus at lunch hour. He has "quit loafing." But the morning comes when he is late for breakfast and they find him sitting up in bed, the floor strewn with loose papers, writing again. They guess he is hopeless...