Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jeez, I'm drunk! I guess I don't know where I am!" Apparently the fellow was resourceful; but probability was added to his statement net only by his evident discomfiture, but by the fact that he was working with the lights turned...
...freighter, Frankcnwald, before the freighter upped anchor for Bremen. The bombs, last of four shipments sold "to parties in the U. S.," cleared by the State Department, were for transshipment when they reach Germany. Where the shipment would eventually wind up, no official would say but the best informed guess predicted a right turn into the racks of Spanish Generalissimo Franco's bombers...
...Union, whose peace-minded President David Dubinsky continues to waver between his devotion to C.I.O. industrial-union principles and his opposition to the projected formation of a permanent organization of C.I.O. affiliates. Three weeks ago Attorney Padway, who previously has represented I.L.G.W.U., lunched with Mr. Dubinsky, inspired a reasonable guess that no small part of the general counsel's duties in the near future will be to woo the waverer, invite him and the union back into...
Further questioning revealed that 12 persons affiliated with the School of design had contributed one dollar apiece to a pool, each making a guess as to the clock's diameter. Arthur Malsin, Yale '35, won the $11 with a guess of 15 feet, which proved to be correct when two of the students of architecture emerged directly above the time-piece and measured it with a six-foot rule...
Said Mr. Eccles, an original proponent of the spending program: "Mr. Ford didn't clash with me. I guess he said he didn't agree, and shook his head in dissent." Said Hall Roosevelt: "There was nothing that smacked of commercialism in any way. ... In fact, it reminded me very much of a family conversation at Wayside...