Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Demeter, Diana. The Carthaginian Tanit was, according to Father Lapeyre's report last week, a lover of child sacrifice. Urns were unearthed containing the charred bones of children as old as 12, as young as a few months. Animal bones found in other receptacles led expedition members to guess that lambs, pigs, kids had been offered as ransom for intended child victims...
...Guess mr. Carmers next book will be entitled Sudden Departure or why I left Alabama so quickly, I won't say anymore becus I no Mr. carmer will want to reveal all in his next book, that oughta...
General Cumming's optimism sprang from the unprecedentedly light mortality of the disease, which sometimes kills as many as 27 out of 100 victims. California's present mortality is less than 1.5%. Why this is so no authority has ventured to guess. In other respects the spread of the epidemic has been typical. It began in May and apparently has reached its mid-summer peak. It shows lighter incidence in San Francisco (90 cases) and Alameda County (106 cases), where the population has been long urbanized and exposed to the disease, than in Los Angeles County (949 cases...
...tootle expertly on his saxophone the frivolous ditty which goes : England's virgin Queen was Bess, I'll be virgin King, I guess, And the greatest sport in England...
...Baruch scoffed at the idea of retiring: "I guess no one will say I won't be plenty busy. . . . There'll be no ghost writing. I'm going to do it myself." But no one was more aware than "Bernie" Baruch that he was announcing the end of a unique business career. The U. S. has had a multitude of daring and successful speculators but it has no other Baruch...