Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would the President veto it if it passed Congress this week in the agreed form? "I have every hope he will sign it," said Barkley, then added, "that is based on my desire, I guess...
Political bossism had also flourished in those devil-take-the-hindmost eras. Clevelanders, always politically alert, had always fought it off eventually. Now the average Clevelander was beginning to feel that there was no domination. Even the most inveterate civic-luncheon addicts could offer no guess as to which of a dozen men was most influential in his town's affairs. The man in Cleveland's streets did not even know who was the town's richest man. It did not seem to matter. The composite Clevelander was beginning, to get the idea that...
...give it to my mother-in-law?" or "Can I do it to my wife?" But the program's popularity is due largely to the expert questioning of Fred, Florence and Bobby Van Deventer, who have learned to narrow the field of possibility so quickly that they often guess the answer in six or seven questions...
Other metals were already up. Platinum prices doubled. Zinc went up 1¼? to 9½? a pound. Copper, tied in with OPA subsidies, waited on Washington developments. But the best guess was that low-cost copper producers would continue to sell at the OPA ceiling of 14⅜? a pound. High-cost producers would probably boost their price...
Twenty Questions (Sat. 8 p.m., Mutual). The old parlor game with a four-party panel trying to guess tough subjects...