Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...related motor and gasoline industries. Businessmen were distracted, however, by the intense speculative operations in real estate and securities. In both cases, the cause seemed to be ample idle funds to play with rather than great increases in prospective earning power. What will happen next is anyone's guess...
...smooth, deeply tanned face. Standing well over six feet, his back was straight, his shoulders broad, and he bore himself with that air of strength and confidence best described by the good and familiar 'ready for either a fight or a frolic.' It was not at all difficult to guess that he was a great favorite among his fellows...
...town between Manhattan and San Francisco; if each of the photographs showed a given automobile, with the pennant bearing the name of each town added as the automobile passed through, the historian would say with assurance that the automobile passed across the continent, although he might have to guess as to why the trip was made and who financed it. Similarly, Evolutionists look upon Evolution as an established fact and advance various guesses (theories) as to why life has made this extraordinary journey. Mr. Darwin saw perhaps a dozen photographs, guessed that the trip had been made, and advanced...
...Guess, and guess right if you can, what newspaper in the U. S. carries the most advertising. A paper without advertising may be an editorial success, but a paper with many pages, of advertising is a great financial success; for advertising is the golden reward of successful journalism...
...merest guess proves correct, Congress made a grievous miscalculation...