Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was any celebrating inside the White House that night, there was no official word of it. The best guess: Harry Truman, Jimmy Byrnes and a few others got together around highballs. But happy Harry Truman had two telephone calls to make: 1) to his 92-year-old mother in Grandview, Mo., to make personal the news she had heard on the radio;* 2) to Eleanor Roosevelt, to say that he wished Franklin Roosevelt could have been in Washington that...
Travel. ODT refuses to guess when Pullman restrictions will be lifted. Others' guesses: 60 to 90 days. Air priorities, tighter now, will continue until airlines get more craft and crews. The shipping squeeze precludes much weekend cruising or transatlantic traveling. More bus equipment is on the way. Toledo to Topeka by taxi is again possible-if the tank stays...
Just why Carpaccio had gone anonymous, after finishing so masterly a painting of Job and Jerome seated with Jesus, no one seemed to know. But most experts could guess why Mantegna's name was forged to it: in the 16th Century (though not today) Mantegna was considered a greater painter than Carpaccio...
Selective Service had no plans, no orders. The draft will not be ended until President Truman or Congress proclaims "termination of hostilities." Best Washington guess was that such a proclamation would not be made for three months. By law, the term of a draftee lasts until six months after hostilities have ended. Thus all inductees with less than 85 points could be kept in service for nine more months, and Selective Service would keep on drafting for at least three more months...
...found tiny dark pieces of ore probably the size of plums. Looking more closely, I found the vein. I chipped it with my hammer, and here it was pitch blende." At that time, pitchblende was famed as a source of radium. Neither La Bine nor anyone else could then guess the greater significance of his find...