Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guess there is, Mr. Tree, but I am sort of green, and Mr. Cochran told me to call him directly...
...about 6,000,000 impatient Europeans will start walking home. That was the guess, last week, of Fred K. Hoehler, UNRRA's director of "displaced persons," who figures that by war's end the number of mislaid people in Europe will still bearound 15,000,000-not counting prisoners...
Since last May several U.S. doctors have reported babies with congenital eye and heart defects which they ascribed to German measles in the mother. In trying to explain why this tragic aftermath of a trifling disease was never noticed before, some doctors guess that an unusually virulent strain of German measles virus may have appeared in Australia and been carried to other countries by heavy war time traffic. But Dr. Stimson thinks that doctors have just begun to notice what has been happening all along. Possible reasons why the worst damage is done in the early months: 1) the placental...
...wire associations (A.P., U.P., I.N.S.) were given medical shots for foreign travel. But the President left without them. Later, they received permission to follow him. Before they could get there, the news was out. No one would say last week why the correspondents were left at the post. Best guess: Franklin Roosevelt had been willing to have the newsmen along, had hoped to get an assent from Stalin and Churchill, had failed...
...James Joyce has hitherto been noted chiefly for her comment after reading Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" Now Joyce's admirers find themselves deeply indebted to this quiet, unpublicized woman for Stephen Hero, a fragment of the first draft of Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. After it had been rejected by 20 different publishers, Joyce flung the 914-page manuscript into the fire. Mrs. Joyce risked her own skin to retrieve pages 519-902, now owned by the Harvard...