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Word: guessing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as it becomes apparent that Evelyn Prentice has a plot, seasoned cinemaddicts will easily guess the rest. The fact that the blackmailing poet keeps a revolver and a diary in his desk clearly indicates a murder to come. That John Prentice is a crack lawyer suggests a courtroom scene in which he will extricate his wife from difficulties. A squeaking little Prentice (Cora Sue Collins) guarantees that her parents will be estranged and reconciled. Although Evelyn Prentice is far from being an experiment, in either art or advertising, its conventional coils are expertly twisted and untwisted. For the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 19, 1934 | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...Press has studiously refrained from referring to the condition of his legs. Citizens have bitterly resented even the most oblique reference to it in public. It was taboo. Were it not for occasional press photographs showing him steadying himself on the arm of an aide, future historians could hardly guess from news reports of the day that the 32nd President of the U. S. was any different, physically, from his 30 predecessors in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sacred Subject | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...early to make predictions as to the starting lineup which will answer the official whistle at 2 o'clock on Saturday, a probable choice began to shape up. In view of the changes which were made just prior to the Dartmouth game a week ago, anyone's guess is as good as another's when it comes to lining up the Crimson eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY GIVEN FINAL HARD WORK FOR TIGER | 11/1/1934 | See Source »

...second successive day Eddie Casey's mystery program successfully prevented any news of the Varsity football squad from leaking out to the palpitating public. What is going on behind the wooden fence that surrounds the practice field is any man's guess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASEY HOLDS ANOTHER WORKOUT UNDER COVER | 10/24/1934 | See Source »

...yesterday the policy continued. Mouthpieces for the H.A.A. "revealed" that the Varsity had a long offensive scrimmage against Dartmouth plays, and that the Varsity was in good shape. No lineups were given out, and the correspondents were invited to guess at what the backfield will be for the Dartmouth battle this weekend. So there's not much to do except pass the buck to the "gentle readers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASEY HOLDS ANOTHER WORKOUT UNDER COVER | 10/24/1934 | See Source »

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