Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guess you'd better make it roses." LOVIN...
That they do not relish continual defeat is not hard to guess; and from what the average supporter has seen of Harvard football teams he knows that on every squad there are men who understand how to win. Form may be an excellent thing but the layman has a habit of discounting it after the first three miles in favor of plain guts, and though it is not always easy to see clearly or think distinctly at New London one thing simple to grasp would be a Harvard crew crossing the finish first. There are many kinds of systems. Some...
...description and Dodson Mitchell's melodrama is no exception. Here things work out a bit too easily and the "long arm of coincidence" is surprisingly helpful. But in order to combat this, the author has busied himself more with the earlier denouements and complications, and allowed the audience to guess the final outcome. For example, before the play was half over, it was not a difficult matter to determine which half of the dual-role would win the hero, but it was not easy to accept all of the various ways in which the playwright jammed the situations into plausibility...
...safe to say that not one reader in many will guess either of the two important solutions, either that of the purpose of the new pin, or the identity of the murder...
...banks and public offices now under construction in Dusseldorf, the new plants and houses which have sprung up and are springing up throughout the Ruhr, the workmen who are drawing daily pay for knitting on their jobs. What Senator Johnson will think of all this it is impossible to guess. Senators always go abroad with their bags well packed with preconceived conclusions and Mr. Johnson's are made of sturdy material. But the country will not have long to wait. The pilgrim will soon be home and the sparks will...