Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could not believe his ears when he heard the announcement by radio. ¶ In Mexico City, Miss Anne Spencer Morrow, 22, five-feet-five, brunette, blue-eyed, literary, bashfully quiet, shrank from the glare of being her country's Hero's fiancee. Her father let the world guess, without assistance, at the time and place of the wedding. Industrious press ferrets brought up Miss Morrow's poems. Her last, in Scribner's, concluded: Still, like a singing lark, I find Rapture to leave the grass behind. And sometimes standing in a crowd My lips are cool...
...found or are likely to be found that will give a final and complete answer to this problem. encountered in the complex conditions that exist in nature, but with constant study more and more ways of scanning critical evidence of various sorts are being developed, so that today one "guess" about what is ahead of the pick is likely to be considerably more accurate than in the past, and there is reason to hope that there will be still further improvements in the future. This hope is to some measure reassuring, for otherwise with the rapidly increasing rate of depletion...
...Well, I, guess maybe I oughta...
...Only a guess can be made as to the cause of this peculiar typhus endemic; and no one up to last week had made that guess. Some agency other than man and his lice would appear to be responsible for the long preservation of the typhus virus in those limited districts. That agency, be it insect alone or an insect which feeds on some host other than man, must be correspondingly limited in its distribution. Or at least its capacity for acting as a vector to man must be so limited...
...business-like desk, facing reporters. For a whole month he has refused to talk; but now he put words like pistol shots, with candor and precision. More was learned in five minutes about the new Committee and what it purposes to accomplish than correspondents have been able to guess in the last six months...