Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time an able chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine, Keysman Hobson wrote: "I hazard the guess that Tap Day is doomed, along with the antimacassar, the wall motto, and the works of Sarah Orne Jewett...
...murders, suicides, and man-hunts without any of the dilettantism of the modern school of gentleman sleuths. Despite his ignorance of Egyptian sculpture or criminal psychology, the inspector keeps the show well in hand. The center problem for solution is one of proving innocence. The most naive tyro might guess that the hands of Laureen, lovely revue star and suspect, are unstained by crime but it takes a masterly piece of detecting to clear her of the web of indicting circumstance...
Newshawks soon swooped upon Miss Mathews for confirmation, elaboration. A "bribe" was paid before appointment, she explained. A "present'' is made after and she knew nothing about bribes. She said: "Women aren't really on the inside of politics anyway. I guess I'll have to get out of Tammany Hall after this...
...kinks out of their arms, managers a chance to inspect new players, famous players a chance to demand larger salaries, the sporting public a chance to get worked up again about baseball. By mid-April, all of this has been accomplished and the big-league season begins. Experts can guess which are the best teams -this year, the Brooklyn Robins or St. Louis Cardinals in the National League, the Philadelphia Athletics in the American...
...field met to act upon the dividend. Presiding over the meeting was Charles Edward Adams, chairman of United States Industrial Alcohol since 1927, president of Air Reduction Co. (owner of a large minority interest in Alcohol) since 1921. Even were the storm not raging, it is safe to guess that onetime (1902-04) Yale Crewman Adams would have advised curtailment of the dividend, conservation of strength in the long race for profits. For after earnings which rose steadily from $976,193 in 1926 to $4,720,000 in 1929, last year Industrial Alcohol made but $1,104,000. Simultaneously...