Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much and how little. After pondering that question for three month; the only information that the President gave was one sentence, a request of $1,500,000,000 for work relief in fiscal 1938. This figure, biggest in the Budget was the most debatable, since anybody's guess of the number of unemployed is as good as anyone's else. No sooner had the figure been announced than the President's friend Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina proclaimed that $1,000,000,000 would be plenty. But a $1,500,000,000 relief appropriation will...
Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle came down with mumps, was quarantined for 15 days in the executive mansion at Harrisburg with Sons Ralph, 8, and Lawrence, 13. Snorted the Democratic Governor, 46: "And now, I guess, the Republicans will accuse me of being in my second childhood...
...three wavy lines-and there are five cards of each design in the pack. For clairvoyance, the pack is thoroughly shuffled, laid face down on a table, and the subject is required to call them off in order from top to bottom. In telepathy, he is required to guess the card visualized in the mind of an agent. Since at every step there is a choice of one among five, the subject should make an average of five hits in a run of 25, if nothing but luck or chance entered the situation. There is nothing...
Still smiling as he swing into the last lap, "Butch" was a full half-length behind John Scruggs of Maysville, Ky. But he came in gamely in a bit under 15 minutes, panting: "I guess you boys...
...refused for the good reason that the Treasury's buying policy is, and always was, on a 24-hour basis, concluded that a change was imminent. The Treasury's story was that some Manhattan bank concluded the same thing after a similar inquiry about future prices. Best guess was that it started abroad after some Manhattan bank notified its foreign correspondent that it was temporarily out of the gold market. Profits on gold transactions have been getting as slim as $250 on $1,000,000 worth of the metal, and with money rates rising the banks...