Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gladiators. Among political observers, there is now a growing feeling that the G.O.P. convention at Philadelphia next year will be a real horse race, and that there will be no silver-platter nomination. To this feeling, the rise of Harold Stassen has contributed considerably. Political prognosticators guess that Taft and Dewey will go into the convention more or less neck-&-neck-with between 300 and 400 votes apiece. They are certain that Stassen will have less than 100. Stassen is not the first man who is regularly named as the compromise candidate. The vision of General Dwight D. Eisenhower stamped...
...that makes the future of the Salzburg Seminar look bright. What the original planners had in mind as far as permanence goes is anybody's guess, but right now they are hoping to make Leopoldskron a fixture--a center for American studies in Europe. To achieve this newest goal they will need money--and their next job will be to convince some of the larger foundations in the United States of their worthiness. If the heads of those foundations would come here and feel for only a few days the spirit of this seminar, convincing would not be necessary...
...like to say what." "Not Radcliffe," Vag breathed to himself. "What did you say?" asked the girl. "Oh, I just wondered if you thought you were going to win the raffle." "Me? You nuts? Er, it's the big bankers who win those things. Fixed, they all are." "Guess so." Vag said...
Nowhere did Prestes explain why he had been absent, or mention rumors that he had been in Russia. The cub reporter and everybody else forgot to ask him where he had been. Best guess was that he had stayed right in Rio, organizing new front parties for his illegal Communists to take over...
...batting stance from brother Dixie (when they meet around the circuit, they usually discuss their Alabama hardware business). One of Harry's neatest tricks this year has been hitting a solid .438 in four games against Cincinnati's sensational, 16-straight Pitcher Ewell Blackwell. Says Harry: "I guess I've just been lucky...