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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week showed signs of having closed the gap between his 1933 form and the game that made him unbeatable in 1932. Said he: "I think my chances of winning the American singles championship are as good as those of any American. . . . I'm all right physically, so I guess it's a question of mental adjustment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tennis Climax | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...mailbox by the road. "H'lo John" the postman sang out. How d' ye make out?" "Dandy Mr. Clinton. They gave me a scholarship and the state Harvard Club promised to fix things if I get stuck. I got a job for my meals, and I guess I can get by on four hundred hard money." "Wull, good luck John," Mr. Clinton wished as his car rattled away: John returned to his wood pile. The September sun poured upon his broad back, on the stone fence along the road. * * * While the evening sun sank beneath the waves of Superior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/1/1933 | See Source »

...They still shoot a lot but they don't bring us more than eight or nine corpses a day now. We don't need to burn them in piles any more. I guess today we'll have time to wait and bury these in the cool of the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Sugar & Shooting | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...first appeared in the U.S. at the end of 1918. following the world-wide influenza epidemic of that year. But the name and effects of the disease are almost all that is known about it. Scientists think it must be caused by a virus, but they can only guess at what the virus is, how it is spread, how best combated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sleep Scourge | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

Each year at the Dublin Horse show, The Irish Independent exhibits some outlandish animal or object, offers a prize to the one who can guess its name. When this year's show opened last week the Independent was displaying, in a shallow biscuit tin the last thing an Irishman might expect to see in Dublin-canned rattlesnake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Last Thing | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

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