Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where the draft was coming from no one could guess. In 1940 many an Administration bigwig, and some citizens, demanded that the President run again. This political year had seen the President drafted only by Illinois's aged (76) Representative Adolph J. Sabath (TIME, March 1) and by West Virginia's Governor Matthew M. Neely, overwhelmingly repudiated by his State's voters in last autumn's election and since defeated in his State Legislature on every turn...
...figure included more than the casualties of war, and admittedly it was speculative. The total of 400,000 set out for battle casualties could be nothing more than a guess. But the rest was based on statistics. About 500,000 will have to be discharged, some because they simply cannot stand up under military life, even...
...broken-down fiddle was a known man. They were wrong. The city-room files were bare of Julius Klorfein's name. At his penthouse apartment he apologized for this unfortunate anonymity: "I've just spent my life working hard and building up my cigar business, and I guess I didn't have any time to get in Who's Who or What's What or anything like that...
...Will this latest shake-up prevent a recurrence of these costly disturbances? One can only guess regretfully 'no'-regretfully, because their source, one can't help feeling, will not be removed until Mr. Nelson himself steps down...
...destruction of [Jerusalem] by the Romans in the year 70 A.D. . . . A man of speculative mind, he tried to figure out how long it would take a smart battery of artillery posted on the Mount of Olives to knock the whole bloody settlement to pieces, and his guess was that it could be bloody well done in half an hour. He was, he said, bloody hot for trying it and he hoped that it would be done in some bloody future...