Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moved back to Lake Forest to a five-acre estate about two miles east of Mellody Farm, which is being converted into a country club. She prepared to have the record of her husband's insolvency stricken off the county books, crying: "I guess this shows that Mr. Armour was justified! . . . And those bankers who called my stock a liability! Well, I can laugh now at them...
...Theodore Roberts, 23, a whimsical, jobless, unmarried electrician of Lake Geneva, Wis. His natural hypochondria took the quirky turn of a boast: "I have headaches that are dandies. IVe had them ever since I was eleven and nobody has ever been able to give me any relief. I guess I inherited them, because my mother had them as far back as I can remember...
...Paris. Instead of a radio the plane carried a small cargo of advertised foodstuffs for "the first payload flight to Europe." In "rocking" the plane off the still water the flyers knocked to the floor their sextant - only navigating instrument aboard - but instead of turning back they elected to guess their course. Navigator MacLaren guessed right at first, picked up two steamers about halfway; guessed wrong thereafter and turned back to safety at Norfolk...
...Something will have to be done about it, and that is where biology and chemistry come in. . . . "I have been experimenting with milk now for about eight years. For the last three years I have taken hardly anything else.* I came in with milk [he chuckled] and I guess I'll go out with it. It's the only balanced ration-balanced by the Great Chemist, who is far away." [He raised his stubby pencil over his head, toward the ceiling.] Will science tell us to eat less, as it has told us to drink less? "Eighty percent...
...poison" fogs have appeared, apparently no one in the panic stricken Meuse Valley thought to bottle a sample of the fog before it blew away. With nothing to work upon last week (for bereaved relatives delayed, attempts to obtain the bodies of fog-victims for autopsy), scientists could only guess what may have happened. Guesses: "Deadly gases from the tail of a dissipated comet."-Professor Victor Levine of Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. "Germs brought from the Near East by the winds which have carried dust from the Sahara Desert to Europe recently, producing muddy rains."-Colonel Joaquin Enrique Zanetti, Wartime...