Search Details

Word: guesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

When the U.S. tries to guess at how the Kremlin estimates U.S. strength, it is obviously dealing with the probable, the possible and the fantastic. Who, for instance, can say what effect the police state mentality has on honest strategic information? Do they tell Stalin what he wants to hear? Or do they tell him the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: HOW CLOSE IS WAR ? | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Less hopeful was toothless, 73-year-old Thakin Kodaw Hmine, the Ben Franklin of Burmese independence. "I was unhappy under the British and Japanese," he groaned last week, "but now I am very sad. My young disciples are killing each other like barbarians. I guess this isn't the time for young men to take the lead in government affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Yogi v. Commissars | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...took the dons less than one hour to accept the offer, but it would be months before Oxford's senior common rooms tired of the great guessing game the gift had started. From Paris last week came one guess about Monsieur X's identity: Leon Fabre, 62, multi-millionaire head of the Fabre shipping lines, and a postwar resident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Munificent Monsieur | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...section 35, 36, or 37 or in the colonnade (now marked for overflow freshmen and graduate students). This year, for the first time, Harvard undergraduates, with or without female companions, will be seated according to their academic class. The above diagram is HAA director William J. Bingham's best guess as to how the new seating plan will work out. If any one class takes up less space than anticipated, however, the lower classes will move up accordingly. The top part of the stands, marked on the map for overflow Freshmen and graduate students, is the colonnade, where large pillars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dates Win in New Seating Program | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...page one is Bingham's best guess as to how the new seating system will work out. But he emphasized that it is only a guess and will remain one until the Dartmouth game here October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Girls to Adorn Traditionally Male Cheering Section Seats This Fall | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Previous | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | Next