Word: guesser
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unfamiliar living language which he cannot, for the life of him, translate. No true Harvard man, however, will give up the attempt to construe a sentence because of any such trivial obstacle as total ignorance of its meaning. A good guess is not without its value, and if the guesser fails to hit within forty rows of apple trees of his mark, - why, it makes no difference. A total omission would have been fully as disastrous...