Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this the police, who are under Sir John Simon's orders, scratched their honest heads, unable to guess whether they were supposed to pounce on chain epistolarians...
...abruptly announced that a nationwide plebiscite will be held on the issue of whether to invite George II to return to Athens as King. The newly elected Assembly, said M. Tsaldaris, will set the date for this plebiscite. On which side he himself would be the Premier let Greece guess but Athens buzzed with rumors that he and his Cabinet had not yet taken and would not take the required oath of loyalty to Greece's Republican Constitution...
...room, new Champion Jimmy Braddock, whom 22 men have previously defeated, explained his part in what was essentially the most colorless championship match in a decade: "I knew in the seventh that I had him. ... I took his Sunday punch and it didn't hurt me. Say, I guess that Bowl jinx still holds good." His night-watchman father, his mother, his four brothers had witnessed his victory. His wife, onetime telephone operator and mother of three, stayed fearfully at home, listening to the radio account of the fight. Champion Braddock dashed off to a Manhattan hotel to meet...
...Well, I guess the way it turned out was very good. The competition was conducted with the utmost fairness. The meals and everything furnished us seemed to be the best that could be bought. I want to thank all you men for making me so lucky...
...speech decidedly too long and probably too emotional (TIME, June 10). Summoned by President Lebrun, M. Laval refused to try to form a Cabinet, bided his time. He figured cannily that the Chamber and would-be Premiers who asked for "full powers" would wear each other out. This Laval guess was correct. In a furious three-day wrangle the Deputies rejected every likely statesman who attempted to dominate it, as it had rejected its own President (Speaker) Fernand Bouisson. When President Lebrun finally had to send for Pierre Laval again, that Senator was daisy-fresh and ready to work...