Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundreds of letters we receive each month, scarcely 80 can make the jam-packed Letters column, and subscribers often ask us how these letters are chosen. I guess the best answer was written 20 years ago to introduce TIME'S first Letters column (Dec. 29, 1924): "Herewith excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain, either supplementary to, or corrective of news published previously in TIME...
From 18 states came estimates that 600,000 ballots have already been cast. Election experts made a guess on the total number of ballots that might eventually be returned and counted: at least 2,300,000. But since some states were mixing soldier and civilian ballots, the exact final total of the armed services' vote may never be known...
...Crimean War; why so much reverence is accorded to Chekhov, who perhaps foreshadowed the Revolution in his plays but certainly satirized revolutionaries. It has been fashionable in America to attribute this to an abatement of Russia's revolutionary and communistic spirit. This seems to me wrong. A better guess is that this country, shaken within a few inches of its life by this war, has, like any man when his mind has been terribly troubled, turned to the past in search of wholeness and security...
...with the News'?, aggressive method of fighting libel threats, were inclined to agree with Bob Hannegan. But few thought that hard-headed Joe Patterson either wanted to spare his readers below-the-belt copy, or minded too much the family slight in the cartoon on Cousin "Bertie." Best guess was that astute Captain Patterson wanted no side music to distract attention from the blaring, anti-New Deal tune played daily by his accomplished trio of Editorial Writer Reuben Maury, Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor and Columnist John O'Donnell...
...Publisher Fred W. Gunstead of the Pilot Point, Tex. Post-Signal (circ. 850): "I have always felt that I had a perfect right to print the unvarnished truth about my fellow citizens. Of course, I haven't exercised that privilege yet, but I guess a fellow has a right to starve if he wants...