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Word: guesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shrinkage comes mainly from boys who prefer another college or who can't afford Harvard without a scholarship, Bender said. Last year the Committee made a bad guess on how much shrinkage the draft would cause, and wound up with a class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of '53's Size Sliced to Pre-war Level | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...trained on the bomber. Whether the bomber can dodge in time out of the deadly beam, or jam the missile's radio receiver before it seeks out its target, Mc-Narney does not say. The outcome of this contest between missiles and "inhabited" airplanes is anybody's guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tactics Up in the Air | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Life with Father. No one, least of all Dickens himself, could guess what the mood of his next moment would be. No contemporary (and the competition was pretty stiff in those days) was capable of ejecting so huge or so sudden a flood of tears, and of drying it up a second later in such gales of laughter. Once, at the funeral of a beloved friend on a rainy day, Dickens found himself close to Cartoonist George Cruikshank (who illustrated Oliver Twist) and became fascinated by the artist's "enormous whiskers, which straggle all down his throat in such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holy Terror | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Anybody's Guess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Ten To Do Battle At Springfield | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...bath time. And it is not earlier than 10:00 that the Friendly Nurse barks into the snoring student's car, "Ha-ha-ha--I guess you're got the sleeping sickness." Similar interruptions follow throughout the day, invariably accompanied by aspirin, alcohol rubs, more washrags, and a little by podermic needle full of penicillin. And at 9:00 a.m. podermic needle full of penicillin. And at 9:00 p.m. the final Cheerful Nurse appears carrying a bottle of huge red Seconal pills. "Medication for sleep," she calls them...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Circling the Square | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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