Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brine announces that he will hold a competition, open to all Harvard men, in which the object is to guess the total number of square inches of material used in the shirt in its finished form. The man who comes nearest to the size of the colossal chest drapery will receive as a prize three free shirts with collars. Second prize will be two shirts and third prize one shirt...
...forget that their films are manufactured for the projection room oi a theatre and not for a pulpit there is apt to be dullness. The lesson for this particular evening is the parable of the poor family who suddenly found themselves wealthy. Scrutinizing of the title enables one to guess the outcome...
...serious minded inquirer holds a playing card in his right hand and thinks hard about it, Levinsky can determine the card. But some friend of Mr. Levinsky's must be certain to tell the victim just which Mr. Levinsky to ask for. Only Mr. S. A. Levinsky can guess the ace of spades, and only Mr. C. D. Levinsky can come to the conclusion that the card is a club and moreover a four. There are fifty-two Levinsky brothers...
...Post changed hands in consideration of a sum variously reported as $1,600,000 and $3,600,000. The lower sum is probably the more accurate guess, since its circulation is about 30,000, with a Saturday edition of about 55,000. A large part of the purchase price is understood to take the form of the assumption of obligations contracted by the present owners to Thomas W. Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. when they purchased the paper from him less than two years...
...What will happen when Yale meets Harvard?" has been the oft-repeated question of the past two weeks It will not, of course, be finally answered until Saturday, but anyone who attended last night's mass meeting feels that "Yale can be beaten" and will make a pretty good guess...