Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laws looking forward to "the eventual elimination of segregated educational systems anywhere in the United States" with due regard for "the legal limitations involved." The crucial provision was complete regional autonomy. Despite this, conservative Southern leader Lloyd Teakle of Louisiana State University could privately remark: "I guess we can get this thing through back home. I'll just show them the Constitution and hope no one else shows them those by-laws...
...travel bug. In July, 35,336 Canadian cars visited the U.S. for 24 hours or more, a gain of 32% on July 1946. For the first seven, months of 1947, the total was 102,260, up 24%. How much money they left behind was still anyone's guess, but even with dollar restrictions it was likely to be more than last year's $126 million...
...almost always tell a man by the way he treats the little fellow. It's my guess that the man who treated us as I have described is not the man pictured by Reporter Ruark...
...Honour School of English Language & Literature, a Fellow and tutor of Magdalen College and the most popular lecturer in the University. To watch him downing his pint at the Eastgate (his favorite pub), or striding, pipe in mouth, across the deer park, a stranger would not be likely to guess that C. S. Lewis is also a best-selling author and one of the most influential spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world...
Heaven & Boiled Fish. Lewis sees no good reason to accept the modern dictum that "scientific" explanations are more authoritative than theological ones: "The old atomic theory is in physics what Pantheism is in religion-the normal, instinctive guess of the human mind, not utterly wrong, but needing correction. Christian theology, and quantum physics, are both, by comparison with the first guess, hard, complex, dry and repellent. The first shock of the object's real nature, breaking in on our spontaneous dreams of what that object ought to be, always has these characteristics. You must not expect Shrödinger...