Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What interested people most about it this year was why Helen Wills Moody had decided not to defend her U. S. championship. She has been married eight months. In this period she has spent three months in Europe playing tennis. A brash guess was that the title she has won so often no longer seemed worth trying for. Her absence from Forest Hills took edge off the arrival of her most capable rival from abroad, Betty Nuthall, 19, of London...
...This resolution did not, of course, supply criteria of a refusal to arbitrate. Clergymen are still free to persuade themselves and their people that the enemy "started the war," and to guess on which nations outside the league God is smiling or frowning...
...pick from them one supreme combination. The only man who, barring injury, is sure to be on the team, probably at No. 3, is Hitchcock himself. The other candidates proceeded last week with practice under his watchful eye- varying groups of brilliant and often erratic individuals. Critics could only guess that on present showing the team would be Eric Pedley of California at No. 1, young Earle Hopping No. 2, Hitchcock No. 3, Winston Guest...
There were contestants who made this guess at a line-up uncertain. Little George H. ("Pete") Bostwick, famed gentleman jockey, had shown up well at No. 1 in the early tests. He is so small he cannot hit the ball far, but No. 1 does not need to hit far-his job is to take a long pass and run it in with an accurate short one. Bostwick, wonderful in the saddle, hits very straight. Elmer Boeseke of California might get on at No. 2 because he works so well with his fellow-Californian, Pedley. Pedley was playing the flashiest...
Newsmen asked one another what had happened, could only guess at the answer. Perhaps some unlucky subeditor had blundered. Or perhaps the Star, unable to transform so many big snakes into other animals, decided in editorial conference that it could ill afford to drop out its ace comic, the Bungles, for even one Sunday. Or perhaps Publisher Longan suddenly and completely recovered from his snake-phobia...