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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knudsen's secretary announced Donald Nelson. A slow, friendly smile spread over Knudsen's face. The door opened; tall, portly, spectacled Nelson walked in. "Hello, Bill." he said. Said Knudsen: "Hello, Don. Congratulations." There was a moment's silence, then Knudsen said: "Don-I guess this defense program is a relay race. I've carried the flag as far as I can go. You've got to carry it the rest of the way. I hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People Win | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...newspaperman than, for instance, a physician. Whether you agree with it or not, almost everyone thinks he can write better stuff than appears under your bylines. Physicians use 75? words to describe minor ailments and the public doesn't feel the same about physicians as newspapermen. So, I guess newspapermen will have to go along with the rest of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Exemption | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...change was made in "White Cargo" when it came to the Plymouth for its one week stand. "It seems my clothes got too disarranged in the hot love scene at the end of the second act. Well, that's been toned down so my clothes stay put. I guess I'll just have to wear a smaller sarong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unchanged By Clothes, Ann Corio Still 'Loves Harvard' | 1/21/1942 | See Source »

What Was Wrong? Like a bridge player down two on a grand slam, doubled and redoubled, Adolf Hitler was obliged to second-guess the play of his hand, and make the best of his mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Bitter Pill | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

From its 896,000-copy christening (Dec. 4) its press run had dropped to 390,000, with heavy returns still running about 200,000. Informed guess was that the Sun might well be thankful to squeeze through its first four months with an average circulation of 250,000 instead of the 500,000 so confidently predicted a month ago. Like guess was that March 31 figures would show Colonel McCormick's Tribune still in possession of its million circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sun Down | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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