Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Molly Mayfield's identity is an office secret. Most Newsmen guess (though she sweetly denies it) that slender, five-foot-two Frances Foster, the Southern-accented wife of News Editor Jack Foster is Molly. Mrs. Foster is an old Denverite. She has lived there six years...
Previously, applicators for living space in University dormitories have come uncomfortably close to the maximum allowed-even with rooms operating at 150 percent of capacity-while the possibility of a variation of several hundred from the present registration guess has made it advisable to look for a margin of safety in other means of housing...
Last week Paul Porter tried to put a brave face on the law that extends rent controls and his job. But the act opened the way to rescaling of ceilings on thousands of items, and Porter warned 'that many prices-particularly on clothing-would surely rise. Best guess on new automobile ceilings: $75 to $100 more on standard low-priced models...
Metcalf's guess is that the library buys on an average one new novel a week...
Whatever the reason for the shift, it seemed a good guess that, with the war over, Russia wants her military leaders to take more & more of a back seat and mingle less & less with outsiders. From Washington last week came a significant story. When General Walter Bedell Smith, who had established close, cordial contacts with many a Soviet brasshat in Berlin, reached Moscow as U.S. Ambassador last spring, he invited seven of them (including Zhukov) to dinner at the Embassy. Only one (not Zhukov) came...