Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incidentally, let's set aright another error: You quoted Will Rogers, "I guess he (Murray) ain't got much chance.'' Here's a clipping of Will's statement to a Daily Oklahoman reporter...
...quanta of energy. Streams of them may be what Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan calls cosmic rays. But Dr. Chadwick doubts that. Neutrons may be, because they have opposite poles, the long sought units of magnetism. Whatever they are, neutrons are fine things for physicists to play with and to guess about. They are, declared Lord Rutherford last week, the greatest discovery since the artificial disintegration of the atom...
...went well until the game with Lake Shore in Chicago. There it was discovered that they were playing the Capone outfit. Perhaps you can guess the conclusion. It puts the finishing touches to the best rip-roaring yarn for many years. But read it for yourself...
...Democratic presidential nomination? Why, his good Texas friend. "Jack" Garner, Speaker of the House of Representatives. But what did he, as one famed Oklahoman, think of the prospects of that other famed Oklahoman and good Rogers friend, Governor William Henry Murray? Will Rogers grinned, ducked his head, replied: "I guess he ain't got much chance...
...Wrigley, from what little we know of him, was a rather typical modern pagan. He may have given generously to his church, but our guess is that his benefactions were infinitesimal as compared with the money he lavished on his estates. . . . We know of no special evidence of a sensitive Christian conscience in his business dealings, though we assume that he was honest in the contemporary sense of that term...