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Word: guessing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then out of nowhere appeared what looked like a little black ball. It was Eddie Tolan, 5 ft. 4½ in. high, running so low his knees seemed to graze the ground, who hurled himself through the tape, won the windy race in 10 sec. flat. He explained: "I guess I'm built so low the wind just didn't hit me." Then he proceeded to win the 220-yard dash also. Herman Brix, Los Angeles A. C., hurled the 8-lb. shot 67 ft. 11½ in. for the meet's only world's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Century of the Century | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...learn?and this idea would be natural to him?that M. Moreau-Vauthier is disposed to decorate with bulbous figures and cartouches, more or less baroque, guess what: the prows of our cruisers. The interior would be bad enough, but the exterior silhouet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Birdsong & Findhorn | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...words were a compound, specific form of the first, even more unprintable. All four words formed an obscene ejaculation evidently aimed at the lofty sentiments expressed in all college hymns. Amid guffaws from like-minded undergraduates and painful embarrassment for decent Harvardmen, Author Fitzhugh was expelled. Said he: "I guess I never did grow up." At the office of the Boston Herald, copies of the paper containing the poem sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Kudos | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...that have come along for quite a while. When the actor is found dead on Stage Ten you stay to find out who killed him? his wife, his director, the nightwatchman's daughter, or her brother, or the nightwatchman, or the fellow who is in love with her. You guess all the time that the director did it, so you are disappointed to find in the end that you were right. The comedy supplied by Neil Hamilton is supposed to open windows so that air can freshen up the suspense, but Hamilton gets boring and the technical detail is much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...which was a technical victory for Fundamentalism because William Jennings Bryan swung a hillbilly jury away from Clarence Darrow and one John Thomas Scopes was fined $100 for teaching Evolution in contravention of the State law, Fundamentalists have been saying not only that Evolution is a "mere guess." but that scientists, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, admit that it is a mere guess. Two States have since passed laws like Tennessee's. Other states ban evolutionary textbooks from the public schools. Therefore, the executive committee of the A.A.A.S. at its spring meeting adopted a resolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Evolution, Present Status | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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