Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harrison was noncommittal. Nonetheless, Congress likes to spend money, particularly in election years and the program was shrewdly divided so that every State and section could be sure of a fat share. In the last depression Congress habitually gave the President lump sums to spend as he wished. Best guess last week was that Congress would indeed give the President what he wanted but this time with more specific instructions as to precisely where and how it should be spent...
Official timers shook their heads, and no one dared guess last night what had happened to John J. Costello '40, only Harvard challenger to winner Pawson...
Lacking her usual "umphy" drawl, she floundered when asked if college men make good lovers. "I guess I haven't been around enough...
...months ago a good guess was 260,000 dead and wounded...
...which Dr. Rhine claims to have proved the existence of "ESP'' (extrasensory perception). Dr. Rhine-some of whose admirers have compared him to Abraham Lincoln, and others to Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin rolled into one-invented a famous test in which subjects are asked to "guess." one by one, the cards of a special deck whose faces they are not permitted to see. He submits that the far higher than expected number of correct guesses points plausibly to the existence of telepathy and clairvoyance...