Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mellon: 1) Money is borrowed in advance of actual needs with a consequent loss of interest; 2) The Treasury must give the certificates, which it sells at par, as low an interest rate as possible, yet high enough to meet momentary conditions of the money market. This involves difficult guesswork...
...much the smugglers and their customers spend is a matter for guesswork. But Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney-General, was able to put a figure, in her annual report, on at least one item-$18,883,541 worth (Canadian value) of Canadian whiskies exported to the U. S. in 1928. Previous years: 1925, 10.7 millions; 1926, 15.4 millions; 1927, 17.1 millions...
...London Evening Standard alone eschewed guesswork, chartered a plane exactly like Loewenstein's, sent up a "burly reporter" with a rope around his waist. After several times "hurling himself at the door" the reporter reported the impossibility of opening it against the pressure of the 300 mile gale...
...Secretary of Commerce Hoover, after warning that all flood control estimates were guesswork so far, last week guessed that the program would be managed for 20 or 30 millions per annum for 10 years. These costs, he thought, should not deter tax reduction. š Arbitration commissions established by treaties with Britain and France...
Arthur Brisbane commented on the univesity's refusal as follows: "Eugenics at present is more guesswork than science. Ninety per cent of the alumni will approve the action of the Harvard trusiees. If in John Harvard's day somebody had offered a legacy to develop the possibility of getting power out of boiling water, or harnessing lightning, they would have rejected it with general approval. Fifty years ago if anyone had offered Harvard $1,000,000 for the study of flying he would have been told, 'You must not make this great unversity ridiculous.' Eugenics in days to come will...