Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invention by Louis Damblanc, builder of the Damblanc helicopter, which is to achieve the same end with far less complication. The cables tell us little except that the device is of insignificant volume, weighs only 16 pounds and is adapted to the interior of the engine. A plausible guess is that the device increases the air (oxygen) drawn into the cylinder...
...Moderate drinkers, 45 per cent (guess), do not take some every day, but do spend evenings in drinking, but do not necessarily get drunk. The moderate drinker rarely knows how to drink. Heavy drinkers, 5 per cent, may drink daily and have drinking parties very often...
...easily guess at Mr. Dawes' long rage in the cab, but the sequel is if possible--more startling. Imagine, then, the taxi pulling up at the Capitol steps with a final burst of speed. Mr. Dawes jumps out and rushes up that long marble flight of steps in a frantic attempt to save the honor of his country. A voice halls him from below: "Hey, come back here, you owe me sixty-five cents!" Sheridan had his foam-flecked charger. Paul Revere his prancing make but for over and ever Dawes will be known by his Yellow...
Gentlemen: I guess you don't know what it means to wander in a foreign land without TIME. I'll just as soon be in jail. We Americans over here pass it around until it looks like something that has been under the carpet since the Spanish-American War. It brings Home to us and drops it in our laps. HOMER CROV...
...attractive prize will be offered by this department to the person or persons who submit the most reasonable guess as to why the Marx Brothers encumbered themselves with "I'll Say She Is", which reopened last Monday night at the Majestic. The Marxians are so very funny, and the rest of the performance is so extremely dull that, It is difficult to see the music; save as foils. Once the four brothers get under way, however, the complementary portions of the revue are swept along on a tidal wave of applause...