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Word: guesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matters straight and to comment on how difficult it is to keep the record straight after one is away. It doesn't make any difference to me what you print at Harvard; I won't be coming back there, first, because of all your lovely publicity, I guess I have been expunged or whatever the process is, and second because I have no desire to return in the first place. However when you gave my story to the United Press you probably get me in serious trouble with the Federal authorities. So I wish to state most strongly that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: -:- The Mail -:- | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

...tell him to go home. He'd take the shortest road." "Oh," said the engineer, "and what would you do if you didn't have him?" The peasant sucked thoughtfully on a piece of straw for several minutes. "In that case," he said at last, "I guess I'd ask an American engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...stores-according to the size of parade they want. For example, a 45-minute parade a mile long with 50 balloons runs around $4,500. Out of what he calls "this crazy business," Gros will gross around $200,000 this year, but, like most showmen, he refuses even to guess his net. Said he: "It's like a Broadway play. You run for months just to break even and count on those last two weeks for your profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The Balloon Man | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...done doesn't mean anything," Wyeth says, "but I feel that the more you get into the textures of things, the less you have to clutter up the composition with a lot of props. When you lose simplicity you lose drama, and drama is what interests me. I guess I'm just an illustrator at heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Close to Home | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...traders who have loaded up with futures contracts to supply EGA with grain, the best guess was that CCC would take over the grain the traders had bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Election Returns | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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