Word: guess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after landing. "I finally decided to do it officially." He flew on to San Francisco, got an enthusiastic welcome from the two youngest of his ten children Francesco, 9 and Ann, 7. Said son Terry, 16: "He's the type of person who will just keep flying. I guess he'll fly until he drops dead...
...traditionally divided service opinions"). Anxious to return to his gold-plated Drexel investment job, Gates early this year resigned his $22,000 secretaryship, effective June 1. But Ike persuaded him to stay in Washington as Deputy Secretary. Said Gates: "It plays hob with my personal plans, but I guess it is my duty...
...tobacco, etc.), better able to withstand the Depression. By 1933 Robinson and his staff saw light ahead, and M.I.T. began switching out of defensive stocks and into railroads, automobiles, mining and steel. With a poker player's eye, Robinson could look at a company's present and guess its future. He personally researched the Texas Co. (now Texaco, Inc.), persuaded the trustees to buy 15,000 shares. The trust kept on buying until it had put $9,400,000 in Texas Co.; today the shares are still in M.I.T.'s portfolio-at a market value...
...note to his publisher, the writer of this ironic romance observes that "I guess I'm the least known author of my ability in America." The titles of some of his previous books (Gestalt Therapy, Art and Social Nature) suggest why. But in this novel, Author Goodman shows an impressive gift for fiction. His prose is strong-flavored and exact, his comedy is caustic. Still, for all its humor, The Empire City bulges like a diplodocus. The first of its four overlong, sometimes aimless books was begun in 1939, and Goodman says he may yet write another volume...
...consultant and wildcatter, in The Greatest Gamblers (McGraw-Hill; $6), out last week to mark the centennial of U.S. oil. Her message: the U.S. has grown to power in oil because of a few uncommon » men, who were armed only with faith, hope and their own by-guess-and-by-God oil-finding theories...