Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motor over Europe, hike in the White Mountains, swim on Cape Cod. But chemistry was his real play. That gone, he is temporarily lost for diversion. To friends who asked why he gave up a great career in chemistry to become Harvard's head he replied: "I guess it's my sense of adventure." His mother thinks the same qualities which made him a great chemist will make him just as great a university president. Says she: "He won't get excited. Everything works out by formula: he'll compound his formula for running the university...
...clock of business conditions has hands but no numbers. It also runs both ways. In frequent hurried glances business clockwatchers must make a good guess at both the time of day and the direction of the hands. There are, however, a number of cabalistic symbols on the face which help them guess. Last week their glances took in these symbols...
...House. At his regular meeting with correspondents the President dropped two hints of his intentions: 1) that he was sure of his legal right to capture the Federal Reserve's gold, 2) that rumors of his intending to establish a new Government-controlled central bank were a bad guess. Then he smiled cryptically. The country was still left guessing. In the Senate, Inflation's Thomas called a meeting of his friends and supporters-Father Coughlin, Robert Harriss (cotton broker), George LeBlanc (ex-banker). James H. Rand Jr. (Committee for the Nation)-to ballyhoo their demands. In the House...
Income. The President estimated U. S. revenues, including processing taxes, at $3,260,000,000 for fiscal 1934 and $3,975,000,000 for fiscal 1935. To estimate these revenues it was necessary to guess at the state of business. His guesses (technically based on the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production) : business in fiscal 1934 to average approximately the same as business in 1931, business in fiscal 1935 to average just a shade better than business in 1930. His estimates of revenue did not include about $50,000,000 which may be added if the Federal...
...onetime Gladys Deacon of Boston took offense at a cartoon in the November issue. The cartoon: a dowager in her garden gapes at two scrawny rosebushes, with their roots close together, their stems intertwined, and their single blossoms cheek by jowl. To her gardener the dowager remarks: "I guess we shouldn't have planted the Duchess of Marlborough and the Reverend H. Robertson-Page in the same...