Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly commissioned second lieutenants will be assigned to statistical control offices in various air forces here and abroad when they leave Harvard. The "Singing Statisticians" take the guess-work out of bombing attack plans by supplying accurate detailed reports...
...mister, this hero's Harvard Yard all right. Rescedin' it. Gonna put it back to grass. How'd it happen? Well, people started walkin' over it, late to classes, I guess. Then them Navy feliers used it for drillin', exercisin', 'n such. Guess they figgered over in University Hall, that they'd let the grass go till after...
Well, by last winter, warn't nary a blade left. Guess they forgot bout them dust storms, 'cause the topsoil just upped and blowed away. Couldn't even raise dandelions. So, me 'n the missus packed our duds on the Ford and headed out for Californy. Reard there'd be work out there for us Picked oranges for a livin' 'n me a Harvard Man. Yep majored in Fine Arts, Bout a couple o' weeks ago. Government man came 'round, told us about rescedin' 'n contour plowin'. We, me 'n the missus, decided we might as well go on back...
...threaten Allied communications with southeast Asia, the Japs dubbed Bose a general and took him along with his "army of liberation." Through the heavy folds of British censorship in New Delhi came word that Bose's forces numbered some 3,000 men; others, freer to speak the truth, guess that he may have as many as 30,000 Indians from Malaya and from Jap prison camps. More important than the size of his army was one explosive fact: an armed, anti-British Indian stands today on Indian soil and calls upon his fellows to rebel against...
...Matthias Islands, Halsey reached the end of his road. Above his area the commands of Nimitz and MacArthur (under both of whom he had worked) had joined. Next job for "Bull" Halsey, one of only three four-star admirals in the Pacific,* is still a layman's guess. A good bet: it will be another fighting job in the Pacific. Headlong Admiral Halsey neither has nor cultivates any genius for riding a desk...