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Word: guesser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past I have been a pretty good guesser for Man of the Year but this year I am in doubt between Churchill and a typical R. A. F. pilot. You will have to choose one or the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Periodically Army books on waging war are overhauled, precepts modernized. No last-minute second-guesser, the Infantry's chief sat down one day in mid-1939, pondered French and German infantry texts, began to pencil a revision of the U. S. foot soldiers' bible. Editor Lynch concurred with German theories of fluid movement, frowned on French notions of static, dig-in defense. Last June, dispatches from Paris indicated that he had been dead right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Handbook to War | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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