Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania for beating them last year. Both teams were so extraordinarily cautious that Hampton scored only three first downs, Lincoln only two. Quarterback Hiawatha Harris of Hampton disgusted his followers by the way he handled punts and was replaced by Long Beam who juggled less. Famed Halfback Edgar ("Beau") Guess did nothing whatever. Hampton 0, Lincoln...
That which bankers like least is guesswork. Yet every Tuesday and Friday all member banks of the Federal Reserve system have to make a hurried guess around 3 p.m. The guess is not what their condition is at the moment, for that is always ascertainable, but what it will be later in the day when they make their semiweekly reports to the Federal Reserve. Late transactions can turn proper reserves into surpluses or deficiencies. A surplus signifies a multiplied loss of profit owing to the fact that a dollar in reserve means many dollars in banking power; a deficit means...
...South Dakota this year is a political battlefield practically barren of national issues. However Nominee Bulow's blunt comedy-Will Rogers once called him "funnier than I am"-has saved their campaign from stagnation. Last week he declared: "They ain't any great issues out here, I guess. Mac's got a job and I want it." Nominee Bulow is famed for his tobacco chewing. His Republican rivals have conceded that "he enters the campaign with great expectorations...
...first of the national advertisements "Chic" Sale philosophized on the rich and poor. Said he: "Well, sir, as long as you are happy, I guess it don't matter where you are. A little tin box of chocolate tablets fits in the pockets of your overalls or it fits in the pocket of your fine longtail dinner coat. That settles it." And the copy continued on the theme: "Happiness isn't a matter of location?you've got to carry it with...
Anyone may guess what happens when the acid of Mr. Babbitt's mind meets the syrup of romanticism. In the history of the romantic movement in the nineteenth century there is plenty of the emotional overtone which grates so harshly on Mr. Babbitt's ear. He goes after it with all his guns. His methods are simple. Beginning with Jean Jacques Rousseau, his arch-enemy, who he appears to believe is responsible for everything that has happened in the last century except the breaking of the halyard on Shamrock V, he makes all the romanticists ridiculous. This is very easy...