Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guess you feel like saying "Well, fevven's sake!" when you get this--but we have something in common because I feel the same way about me for writing...
...hence the crowd saw nothing of Jack Buckler. Of the incredible team which Coach Gar Davison has built from football wreckage in his first season, Halfback Buckler is the most dangerous player because of his ability to pass unerringly while running at top speed. Fortnight ago Yale rarely could guess what Buckler was up to, could do little about it when they guessed right...
...whole process has about it an air of unconscious irony, faintly reminiscent of the educational methods pictured in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." For it is not hard to guess what type of picture the teachers will choose for their tender-minded young charges: it is almost certain to be "educational" and "uplifting," and its capacity to amuse is likely to run in indirect ratio to its capacity for moral elevation. The students will go to the selected shows because they are forced to, and they will take part in the classroom discussions as perfunctorily as they swallow...
...misguided decision the concentration plan owes many of its chief difficulties. Students who find that they have made a mistake must undergo the awkward and wasteful process of transference. Others may not discover their error until too late, and remain bitter critics of the field in which an unhappy guess has placed them. It is foolish to argue that freshmen can, if they will, easily get desired information from their advisers or from the official catalogue. The counsel of individual advisers, however ably given, is more than apt to be disregarded; and the catalogue is little more than a list...
Governor Ruby Laffoon made a Kentucky Colonel of Mae West, professional voluptuary.* In the same batch he made a Colonel of Miss Betsy Helburn, graduate of the University of Kentucky, dietitian of The Bronx's Lebanon Hospital. Said Colonel West in Hollywood: "I guess he wants me to help him keep his troops under control. When do I get my uniform...