Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Times editorial, quoted in an adjacent column, shows by repeated examples that college graduates do not furnish nine out of every ten leaders in society, it is not to be inferred that this excellent journal has gone over to the opposition. It is safe to hazard the guess that if the New York Times had a son, it would send him to college. What the Times does assert is that Mr. Albert E. Wiggam has played with his figures and got the answer he wanted, but, like Goldberg's famous Bughouse Fables, they don't mean anything...
...eloquence of Lawyer Schultz. But no, said the Justice, there could be no injunction. The editors of the Graphic might well copyright their puzzles, but how could they copyright their answers, when the answers had never been published? Anyone, even the editors of the Bronx Home News, might guess at the answers...
...course the whole thing is a guess but as compared to a previous guess of the same kind made ten years earlier, it shows an increase of 72.2% in the country's dollar worth-an increase from 186 billion dollars to 321 billions...
...course, if the guess misses the mark, that is unfortunate, but not vital. If a newspaper hasn't established a reputation for scrupulousness on these little points, there is nothing to lose by a wrong guess...
...certain type of newspaper the ability to guess shrewdly is almost as great a necessity as membership in the Associated Press. To such papers a guess, if backed by proper attendant circumstances in fact, will create a sensation, will steal a march upon rival papers, and will attract more pennies into the strong box. And, after all, it may be true! Who knows...