Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straw ballot." Everyone in England and Wales is being asked to answer. Every family in Dulwich, for instance, is being visited, and worried for a reply. Percentage polls run up as high as 98% of all the people over 18- better than any election ever got. My guess is that about 55% of all English & Welsh citizens will have voted in the end, on the average of the whole country...
...almost seemed as though he was playing for time, for a few more minutes of life," recalled Oda Kayse, the Smithland telephone operator. "It didn't bother me, but I guess it did some of the other women. I wouldn't mind seeing another hanging...
...From then on, English ideas and institutions began to permeate Russia; their influence in the reign of Peter the Great, for example, is notable, and not even the excessively francophile trendencies of Catherine the Great were able to give them any real setback. Locke and Newton, as we should guess, were known to the Russian intelligentsia, even if the knowledge was gained through French intermediaries, and Shakespere, likewise, as the whole history of criticism shows, is too great ever to be altogether ignored anywhere for long; he came into his own in Russia at the beginning of the XIXth century...
...Well, honey," says the man. "I guess we'll have to go back to Hampton Falls...
Uncle Phil: "Well, my children, your Aunt Eille wrote me you were coming to the city. Why didn't you call me up? Guess you'll be needing a little money, won't you? Here...