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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pedigreed Jersey bull calf. The sweepstakes prize meant that he had outstripped 27,000 other small holders and croppers in meeting the South's biggest agricultural problem: how to make the poorer farm families self-sufficient. Asked what he would do with his $600, Farmer Majure mused: "Guess I'll buy some more land to go with my 40 acres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plant-to-Prosper | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Playing for time, Missouri waited for official word from the Court, refused to say what it would do with Lloyd Gaines, now a clerk in the Michigan civil service. Best guess was that the Legislature would start a law course at Lincoln University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Damnify Both Races | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...figures "unsound and confusing." Advertising Age, admen's newspaper, reported a long background of discussions toward a cooperative study by advertising agencies and leading magazine publishers to measure "the limits of magazine audiences, thus giving advertisers a readership potential comparable with the number of radio sets," hazarded a guess that publication of LIFE's first findings might accelerate this cooperative project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Audiences v. Circulations | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Alan G. Slocombe '42, author of the cryptic "biting over the telephone" phrase, pooh-poohed the idea that Miss Arnold had been frightened. "I growled at her and I guess she was just being coy," he claimed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CO-ED ENMESHES SELF IN TELEPHONE BOOTH | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Then on the train a man kept staring at him. Cantor tried staring right back, but it did not do any good. Finally the stranger came up to him and told him his face was familiar, out "now don't tell me, let me guess." Cantor got a little weary of this and remarked that he was the man with five daughters. "Oh, I know, Mr. Dionne," the stranger said quickly. "No," said Cantor, "Eddie Cantor--Dionne in slow motion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANDERS THEATRE JAMMED TO HEAR REFUGEE MEETING | 12/7/1938 | See Source »

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