Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...putting the cart before the horse. They want a permanent revaluation of the dollar first. It is the Government's policy to restore the price level first. I would not know, and no one else could tell, just what the permanent valuation of the dollar will be. To guess at a permanent gold valuation now would certainly require later changes. . . ." This was definite news: a promise that stabilization of the dollar is not to be expected soon. 3) "When we have restored the price level, we shall seek to establish and maintain a dollar which will not change...
...Denston's 82-year-old husband, a rickety old man with wens on his face, remarked: "She's all right now, I guess. . . . I guess they did a pretty good job." Near Philadelphia their son, William Denston, a motorcycle policeman of Lower Merion Township, showed reporters a piece of rope. "Yes," he said, "I was there. I'm satisfied." Said the sheriff of Somerset County: "Investigation? Oh, yes. Well, boys, I was right in the thick of that affair. . I looked right in the faces of some of that mob and I didn't recognize...
...felt I would have to break out of the cabin. I suppose doctors would call it aquaphobia. I'm a bundle of nerves. I guess I'm getting too old for these stunts." [He is 36.] Ill when he took off from Lympne, Eng land, Sir Charles suffered from lack of sleep. Typical excerpts from his log : 'Feel pretty sick. Had worst scare when forced to descend to 200 feet be cause I thought I was fainting. . . . Pos-sibly [tailwinds] are blowing higher up but am afraid to go up lest, feeling suddenly faint, I might...
...Dietz is well qualified in football to make a guess as to the outcome of the game tomorrow, for he has a wealth of college football experience behind him. He himself played in the Stadium on Carlisle teams in 1907-11 when Carlisle won two of the games and later was assistant coach of his Alma Mater. The United States is his special territory in football coaching experience, since he has helped teams at Washington State, Purdue, Stanford and in numerous high schools...
...loose drumhead and there was a band of slack-meat over the top of his trunks." The piece ended with what none of Pegler's readers could misconstrue as an apology for sentiment: "But I am bracing up now. I will be all right in a minute. I guess I am just an old crybaby. But a fellow was saying I couldn't turn it on and couldn't write anything but cynicism, and I said the hell I couldn...