Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, any estimate based on these figures as to how nearly the postal receipts will balance expenditures for the current year is the merest guess. But the figures quoted would indicate a deficit of something like $40,000,000, which is due, of course, to the legislation passed by the last Congress affecting both pay and rates...
...spirit of revolt rife in American colleges? Mr. Evans Clark thinks so, and in an article in the New York Times Magazine, partly quoted in these columns, he sums up his observations and hazards a guess as to the causes. He has caught the color of a large section of undergraduate discontent when he uses the words, "Menckenism," "negation," "cynicism." But he concludes that it all proceeds from a type of student he designates as "the carefree, mentally and morally loosejointed 'flapper.'" Had he looked deeper Mr. Clark might have discovered that this is neither a very penetrating nor very...
Then come the social columns and personal mention. "George W. (Mike) Murphy was the center of a lively little party in the Gales Ferry dining room last evening. The occasion was his coming of age (21) but as Ruth Van Phul would say, 'nobody would ever guess it. The dinner was a riot of color and the odor of condensed milk could be distinctly observed...
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...Boonton, N. J., the Board of Fire Wardens held a contest to raise funds for a new fire truck, asked the citizens of Boonton to guess how long it would take a fully wound watch to run down. One T. C. Carbonell guessed 34 hours 35 minutes. In 34 hours, 34 minutes, 52 seconds, the watch ran down...