Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete Mary Weston's metamorphosis into masculinity. Said Dr. Broster: "Mr. Mark Weston, who was always brought up as a female, is male, and should continue life as such." As to whether Mark Weston could have sexual intercourse or achieve paternity, Dr. Broster did not publicly hazard a guess. Last week in Plymouth, Mr. Mark Weston revealed that he had married Miss Alberta Bray week before...
...noon sharp, Eastern Daylight Saving Time, the figures flashed to the waiting cotton world. It was the Government's guess, the best to be had, that this season's crop in the biggest cotton land in the world would be 12,481,000 bales of about 500 Ib. each.* Last year the crop was 10,638,000 bales. The estimate was a little higher than expected, although Clinton T. Revere, famed cotton expert for the Manhattan firm of Munds, Winslow & Potter, scored a bull's-eye with a private estimate of 12,498,000 bales, only...
...presume to set up a Party program but confined himself to straight-forward criticism, bold but not bitter, vigorous but not violent, scorching but not sarcastic. Excerpts: "An endless succession of interferences and experiments was inaugurated under the deceptive slogan of a new deal. This policy of government by guess, officially explained by President Roosevelt as founded on a philosophy of try-anything-once, was initiated under the title of economic planning. No one of its proponents has even been able to define the New Deal or to explain what it is aimed at or where it is going...
...newsreels of this incident had also not been snipped, into court also was haled Gaumont-British News Films, facing heavy penalties in the most vivid demonstration in years that Britain enjoys neither freedom of the press nor freedom of the films. The New York Times hazarded the bold guess that the British Director of Public Prosecutions, although he claimed to be trying to scotch articles and films prejudicial to the trial of the accused, may have acted because "the offending stories were of a sort calculated to win public sympathy for McMahon" from whose hand the pistol sped...
...Gerofsky. Last week the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. arrived at a satisfactory settlement of its suit to make disgusted Mr. Gerofsky pay $20.35 for the long-distance call. Said Furnace Boy Duggan: "Gee, I'm sorry, Mr. Gerofsky. It was just an idea I had and I guess it wasn't so good...