Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Best guess as to what had upset Senator Johnson's newly acquired composure was an observation anent Captain Ingersoll's trip by New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock to the effect that he was "expertly informed that, should it at any time serve the interests of the two great democracies, their Navies would automatically complement each other in the Pacific." Added Columnist Krock: "This is the kind of understanding that is hardly more than a wink or a nod, the sort of thing not Mr. Johnson or anyone else can extract from men's inner minds...
...their end. Might as well slip into the diner now, before it gets crowded, and get a bite to eat. Hmm! Not very hungry though, in spite of the work he'd been doing lately. Exams seem to take it out on your nervous system, more than anything else. Guess he'd let it go at a club sandwich, and fortify himself with something else later on in the afternoon...
...shortly declared that the 75-year-old lady was mentally unsound when she drew her testament four days before she died. They brought her nurse to court to testify that some nights Mrs. Nieman "would drink half a bottle (of gin), some nights a full bottle. . . ." No one could guess why Mrs. Nieman wanted Harvard to have her money, reputedly $5,000,000, and even Harvard's President James Bryant Conant shied off a bit, firm in the conviction that Harvard wanted no journalism school...
Sometimes they guess right, sometimes wrong; the chances are about even that the issue will be a satisfactory one, that they will stay placed and find their work congenial. It is principally to these men who are tempted to step blindly into jobs tendered by friends and relatives that the Alumni Placement Office would utter a word of caution and ex- tend what assistance...
When he was asked to predict the future, General Wood wryly recalled that last summer he felt that conditions were good and went away for a six-weeks hunting trip. "When I came back I found I was 100% wrong." This time, however, General Wood was ready to guess that good times were not far away, for Sears, Roebuck inventories, having been cut some 40%, in common with most inventories are "pretty well worked...