Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...species, of course, may be different at Union College; but elsewhere it is a pretty safe guess that the average run of legs and heads function as well as in the pre-Colgate era. If the two extremities of a student's anatomy be made the subject of presidential lecturing, the obvious criticism is not that students are being reduced to torsos, but that they run the danger of becoming either all heads or all legs...
...from past experience that we must make our present deductions. Without a knowledge of the world's past experience we should be like a ship without a compass, shaping our course into the future by guess-work alone...
...officials in even the largest cities were called upon to satisfy. One hysterical woman searched through eleven volumes of statistics, seeking grounds on which to demand an increase in her alimony. The divorced one, ungallant, defied her; he has filed his returns in another city, dared her to guess its name...
...even John L. Lewis has not offered a guess as to the probable duration of the strike. And it is a safe guess that if Mr. Lewis had guessed, his guess would prove to be wrong...
...copper business is too temperamental to admit of cocksure prophecy. Recent curtailment of production is said to have reduced output by 20,000,000 pounds from levels reached last spring. Demand has continued strong and varied. What stocks of surplus copper amount to, is now anyone's guess. But rumors in the trade are to the effect that July and August figures will shortly be forthcoming...