Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Around this Hopewell plant hinges Allied's future. How much has been invested there is not known. One low guess was $30,000,000. But then $100,000,000 has also been mentioned. It is certain that the big Nitrate Cartel will fight hard to prevent Allied from extracting profits from its Hopewell investment; it is certain that in Hopewell Allied will muster every corporate war-machine which it has assembled behind the dark cloud...
...going to the Yale hockey game, of course, and he is not rash enough to hazard a guess as to who will be the victor--that he leaves to the respective teams and the somewhat fickle Goddess of fate. But if fortune smiles on the crimson-shirted players, and it may, there is one thing that the Vagabond is perfectly certain will come to pass, and that something is a subway riot...
...Mellon letter clearly foreshadowed a Hoover veto. But upon Congress it acted as no deterrent. Speaker Longworth pronounced the Bacharach bill "sane, sensible and conservative" and "one guess as good as another" on its cost. Secretary Mellon was loudly flayed for painting too gloomy a picture, was reminded that his dire prediction about the effects of the original Bonus act in 1924 had never materialized. The Ways & Means Committee in its report on H. R. 17054 argued that "there is no way to determine accurately just what the cost 'will be." Against Secretary Mellon's "potential liability...
...Hungary hanging is different. It begins the day before with a visit by the hangman to look over and guess with practiced eye, the weight of the condemned...
When the hangman came to guess her weight, Frau Kardos screamed hysterically. But later she ate a large bowl of steaming goulash, passed the night on her knees praying. Next morning, before being led out to die, she drained several glasses of brandy rapidly, alternately wept and prayed until she mounted the scaffold...