Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House as a guest. The press intimated that the President intended to make him chairman of the proposed Agricultural Commission which the President has spoken of and Mr. Dawes dilated upon. Inasmuch as Mr. Lowden has been interesting himself in farm problems for some time, it was a good guess. ¶Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge motored up to Baltimore on LaFayette's birthday and unveiled a statue of the General...
...station by Henry M. Dawes (brother) with whom they motored to the White House. At the door, General Dawes turned aside to meet the newspaper men, many of whom he knew. A question was popped at him. He answered: "I wonder." He grinned and went on: "I guess that sounds strange coming from me, but you fellows will get used to it. I must talk sense and must be cautious in my replies. This is different business from being Director of the Budget, and, much as I like gassing with the White House correspondents, I must forego that pleasure...
...wheat forecast made on June 1 each year by the Department of Agriculture is of course an estimate only, and sometimes a quite faulty one at that. Nevertheless, it usually indicates clearly enough prevailing tendencies relating to the new crops. The Government's guess as to the size of the total current crop is only 693 million bushels - less than any other year's back to 1916 and 1917 when the crop was very disappointing. It is evident that the low wheat prices have led to considerable curtailment of the farmers' plantings. This year's cold...
...this, I tell you. I did not kiss that girl. She kissed me. Intimations were given to me that if I did not favor Henry Ford's bid for this Muscle Shoals, some sort of thing would be hung over my head. I guess this...
...studies. It is here that the sponsors of the book make their only mistake; for in portraying a single type as perhaps representative of the whole, they have laid themselves open to attack. Everyone does not misuses the Freshman Jubliee, or consider probation normal; and it is my guess that there will be some who will say so. But yet there is sufficient truth in the book, and sufficient discrepancies in the objects of its satire, to warrant its existence...