Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snarled a convict: "Guess we'd better take all of you. You guys take off your clothes. We need...
...course by crosswinds, forced to fly blind the whole way through fog and snow, Pilot Doolittle averaged 217 m.p.h., reached New York from Los Angeles (2,600 mi.) in 11 hr. 59 min., just in time to beat the transport record by four minutes. Said modest Flyer Doolittle: "I guess it was just a case of poor piloting. . . . The old man is slipping...
...other corporations which might have to pay $1,690 on $1,000 bonds slumped heavily. Trust companies feared they might be sued in cases where they had accepted devalued dollars in payment of principal and interest on gold bonds. Business was thoroughly jittery for nobody could more than guess whether Mr. Cummings' estimate of $75,000,000,000 of private gold obligations outstanding was high or low. In any event reinstatement of the gold clause would place many a great company in financial jeopardy...
...malaria organisms in the blood. Careful and consistent dosing for eight weeks cures the disease in most people. Such a cure, however, does not give immunity against new malarial infections. Some cases are never cured although they may be latent for years. The reason for relapse is obscure. Specialists guess that the malarial parasite acquires a form which quinine cannot assail until some accident of ill health intervenes...
...with three passengers, a crew of four, 54,000 pieces of mail. Between Cairo and Bagdad it encountered a violent thunderstorm, sent out an SOS. What happened to Uiver after that no man knows. When found, it was on its back, smashed to bits, burned to a crisp. Best guess was that Uiver had made an emergency landing at night, flipped over in a somersault and caught fire. Of 40 Douglases built to date, it was the first to crash...