Word: guesser
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...mammoth "hymn pools." Students pick their hymn numbers before the opening of the exercises, contribute their dimes, stir with restless anticipation throughout the service, and greet the announcement of the hymn with a burst of excitement. After much craning of necks and much consultation to find out the nearest guesser, effusive congratulations are showered upon the winner who modestly pockets his reward. --The Transcript
...Robert Littell's youth included Harvard and the U. S. army of occupation in Russia and book reviews for the New Republic and many a big talk with famed Walter Lippmann, philosopher-editor of the New York World. In addition to his Post position. Broadway's Best Guesser also reviews plays, profoundly, for Theatre Arts Monthly. He is married to Anita Elaine Damrosch, daughter of Musician Walter Johannes Damrosch, granddaughter of the late great James ("Man from Maine") Blaine...
...lump his 20-odd other newspapers at $50,000,000. It is hard to price his vast holdings in Mexican realty, but $10,000,000 would not be overrating them. And much property in California and elsewhere must be added. Shrinking the total to be thoroughly conservative, a guesser might safely guess that Mr. Hearst is worth...
...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...