Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still likes to go to prize fights, and swears he could tell, from the way Joe Louis was sweating the night he entered the ring against Billy Conn, that the champion was in poor shape and would have trouble winning. And he correctly guessed that Joe Louis would torpedo Lou Nova in the sixth round. Baruch watches all human affairs with his speculator's eye, studying the form, trying to guess the result. And when he is sure, he plunges, with the audacity and icy conviction of a big-time speculator...
...yesterday I found Oscar in a lamentable condition. I was sincerely sorry for him. He was lying in a crumpled heap on top of a "scope." I guess one of the Master Minds had knocked all the sparks out of him, because when I approached, he bowed reverently toward the East in an oriental fashion and muttered "Chaffee is the only God and Tatum is his prophet...
BILL SMALE and ROGER SHERMAN are splitting hairs over almost nothing these days in their race to grow a moustache by the night of the REGIMENTAL BALL, while MRS. GEORGE KALIONZES blew into town and made GEORGE shave his off. . . . Well, I guess us fellers can't tickle all the gals . . . all the time...
...Added Storekeeper Sabata: "My family consists of four girls, ages 21, 19, 16 and one year. I wouldn't do my government much good for soldiers, having all girls, but I did my part in 1918. I was in France for a year fighting those Germans but I guess we didn't stay long enough. . . . Give the Germans hell...
...world knows the facts about the fate of the Catholic Church in Germany. . . . The allegations of Radio Paris, therefore, need no further refutation. We can only guess that they were made for purposes of propaganda...