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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studio, mill around afterwards for autographs, pour their troubles into Grycie's willing ears. One night last week two tars insisted on escorting her from her hotel to the broadcasting studio, explaining that back in England they had never got a close-up of her. Sighs Gracie: "I guess they think I'm Britannia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Grycie | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

Subject of the talks was not hard to guess. Even during Morgenthau's short absence the home-front war against inflation has taken a turn for the worse. In Washington men knew that more than one price ceiling was cracking, that a vicious retail boom is on. Federal Reserve authorities gloomed that unless the Treasury can put its finances in order the U.S. will face a real bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASURY: Return to Grief | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...forest fires. The whole island structure was white, as if the skin had been burned away from the flesh. I thought I saw a crowd of men standing on the after part of the flight deck, but they may have been wounded left there, or dead men. Murphy, I guess we have a lot to be thankful for. It's a little hard to realize just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: The Sinking of the Wasp | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...guesses as to what was behind Jerry Land's tactless talk, best guess was that he was plain tired of being needled. Like a bear with bees buzzing around its noggin, he had struck out wildly. His cronies were agreed that he was not thinking of N.M.U. or any other union; he was just plain mad-at newspaper talk about shipyard loafing, at union squabbles between Joe Curran's N.M.U. and the Seafarers' International Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tactless Talk | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...pains taken by the Nazis to jam United Nations' broadcasts is a guide to the willingness of Germans to listen. Some experts guess that perhaps a million Germans still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ether's Ack-Ack | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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