Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worse still was the uncertainty of not knowing whether the U. S. had abandoned its silver purchases, or merely postponed them. Secretary Morgenthau swore the U. S. was sticking to its silver policy but what that was to be hereafter was anybody's guess. Silver traders the world over swore and bit their nails. U. S. financiers admitted they could not fathom it. In Reno Senator Pittman sat down and dictated a long signed statement for the Press. Excerpts: "Certain governments and certain banking institutions and speculators in ... foreign countries desire to know what our government is going...
...hard work, but I wanted to make more. You are on the run all the time, but after a few bumps you learn the shortest way from one loom to another, and how to save steps. I feel all right, tired, but nothing serious. I guess it would be easier, though, if we got more nourishing food. What we get is pretty poor." "I Spend My Money." Loaded with lingerie, perfume, champagne, vodka, cheese and sausages Hero of Labor Alexei Stakhanov was back from Moscow last week in his home on the Donbas Steppe, a four-room shack, the walls...
...Yagoda's Commissariat of Interior became the Commissariat General, with himself as Commissar General. Since the Cabinet of Russia is known as the Commissariat or Council of Peoples Commissars, this creation of a Commissariat-General was indeed extraordinary. What it meant Russians and the world were left to guess-probably no more than that the Russian spy clique is little by little openly assuming some trappings of the power it has wielded for years. In effect an Ogpu Cabinet had been created alongside the State's Cabinet. The new Cabinet of Yagoda: Commissar Yakov S. Agranov...
...laboratory of biolinguistics made 24 stutterers get down on their hands & knees, talk while crawling. In every case the stuttering was notably diminished, in some cases eliminated entirely-so long as the crawling posture was maintained. Reporting this last week in Science, Experimenter Hazle Geniesse ventured a guess that such a posture might alter the cerebral blood pressure, remove the spasmodic stimulus. ¶ Dr. Donald Anderson Laird, Colgate's well-publicized authority on sleep, also had a report to make last week on the effect of posture on blood distribution. Dr. Laird thought that, although mankind was benefited...
...rifle, sobbing: "I've shot my son. He dared me to." Taken to a hospital, where doctors found him too weak to stand the removal of a bullet which had sheared through one lung and lodged in his liver, Son Jesse gasped: "It was my fault, I guess. It was an accident." Next morning Mrs. Livermore sobered up enough to blame it all on a letter she had received from her onetime husband. "He said I kept his letters from our sons," she babbled miserably. "He said a lot of things. It upset me, unstrung...