Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such interest for that would mean simply a repetition of the recent Memorial Hall fiasco. But it is worth while to point out that into Administration must depend upon material evidence of a desire for club tables and a University dining hall, that it cannot go ahead on mere guesswork that the interest is there but unexpressed. It is, we take it, largely for the purpose of forming a definite conclusion as to the strength of this interest that the meeting today has been called. Under these circumstances it would indeed be unfortunate if the attractive plan which the Administration...
...often have been asked whether I consider Berna's record to be within the reach of Tibbetts of any other competitor in the forthcoming struggle on May 29. Frankly, such an opinion must be based on pure guesswork, for the weather must be just right, the track fast and the competition keen. An adverse wind would militate against a runner of Tibbetts' comparatively frail physique, but if conditions are ideal it is within the possibilities that the collegiate record will be lowered...
...land. Geese, gulls, eider ducks fly northward from Alaska and Siberia in early summer and return with fledglings. Prevailing winds indicate high ground in the direction of the Ice Pole, as do the Arctic tides as charted by Harris. Whaling stories contribute the authority of legend to the guesswork of science. If there is land and if it is attached to the U. S., this country will possess the Hawaii, the Suez, the Yap of the predestined north routes. So enters the theme of patriotism. Nor is there lacking the aria of commercial enterprise?for the flight will be named...
...surprised, therefore, to hear that King George of the Glucksburg dynasty is being widely fonted during these weeks preceding the Greek elections. His poor guesswork in siding again the Allies in the war, together with the loss of his early romantic character, typified by the shedding of his hair, lost for him the fickle favor of his people. And the accession of financial, and, therefore, of political strength, through the marriage of his daughter to the American millionaire Leeds, has been counterbalanced by the generous openhandedness of American Greeks, who look back to Attic aridity, through a veil of hazy...
...however, we found that we could put the canvas to a year-round use, we might consider it. It might be used in the spring to protect the baseball diamond from rain or possibly as a covering to the baseball grandstand. At present the whole project is nothing but guesswork...