Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present over 1000 members of the classes of 1937, 1938 and 1939 have signified their intention of returning for the 300th Celebration. Thus it seems safe to guess that over half of the student body will return for one of the greatest events in Harvard history. Of this number, over 200 have signed up for the gala Undergraduate dinner at the Harvard Club, the event which will be the finale of the program...
...bewildered over the inexplicable jittering of the seismograph located until recently in the University Museum. Adopting a procedure long in vogue in scientific circles, one of the more imaginative of the bewildered postulated at random a cause for the instrument's super-oscillations, and then proceeded to prove his guess...
Even the machine-loving Wells, who delights in huge dynamos and motors, can little more than hazard a fantastic guess as to the material form of the world in 2036. Gigantic cranes, enormous turbines, subterranean glass cities, and unidentifyable masses of machinery (produced by miniature effects and unusual angles) all contribute to a world of technical wonders. Yet these are childishly grotesque, limited by the incapability of the imagination and hampered by the confinements of the present. It is more than exceptional photographic artistry: meaningless...
...having his name on the Churchill Downs gate five panels away from that of his half-brother Twenty Grand, winner in 1931. Jockey Hanford, undismayed by a 15-day suspension given him for "rough riding," chortled: "They've suspended me? They've set me down? Well, I guess I'll go out in the barn and spend the 15 days feeding sugar to that horse...
...Catatumbo River, which rises in Colombia and empties into Venezuela's saltish Lake Maracaibo (see map p. 68). Early explorers thought the Catatumbo Lights might be similar to the "Perpetual Fires" at Baku, where burning natural gas seepage illuminated the discovery of that fabulous Russian oil field. Their guess was a scientific error. But the Catatumbo Lights did illuminate the discovery of another major source of the world...