Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Best guess of most observers was that Arthur Krock had not turned yellow journalist, that the President had indeed considered the idea, probably about once, perhaps in an expansive mood at a dinner party whence some little bird may have gone to whisper it in credulous Mr. Krock...
...nine rounds also went wild. At once the U. S. Press went wild with screaming headlines. From Rapid City, S. Dak., where he received the news, President Roosevelt ordered Secretary of State Hull to "protest." Taking a chance that the monoplane was Spanish, but unable even to guess from which side of the Spanish civil war it came, good grey Mr. Hull announced that "both sides" would be asked to instruct their airmen in "strongest terms" not to do this sort of thing...
...wild guess at what the starting lineup will be in October when Amherst Journeys down to the Stadium for the first time in years, a guess unsubstantiated by much evidence since practice is still two weeks away, would make the lineup as follows: Guards...
...statement was described by its officers as "nearly impossible." President Green had estimated that net income for 1936 would be more than $1,000,000 or better than 30? a share on the common stock, the new company's sole capitalization. The temptation to make and stake a guess on Middle West's real value last week proved too much for two Chicago brokers...
When a child's sex is ambiguous at birth, it is almost always thought to be a female, sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly. A wrong guess is usually the basis of "sex changes" which make headlines. At puberty the increased production of male hormones from the glands causes the alarming "change." Then the girl changes clothes and assumes the sex which, glandularly speaking, he actually had from the beginning. It sometimes happens, however, that a normal girl suddenly begins to acquire virile features. Medical men are convinced that this is due to tumorous growths which take root on the normal...