Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this basis, an overwhelming number of actors who earn $40 to $90 a week averaged between $204 and $504 as their annual theatrical incomes in 1936. In the $100-$199 wage bracket the yearly figure was $510 and $1,014. These figures were apparently more than guesswork on the magazine's part, for of all the wage contracts signed through Actors' Equity in 1936, 1,693 were in the $40-$99 class, 522 in the $100-$199 group. Only 402 called for $200 and over. "Survey . . . takes no account of the thousands of actors in the commercial theatre...
Dean Landis maintained that on this account "modern constitutional lawyers must study the prejudices of the Justices as well as the law. This spreads uncertainty throughout the whole body of Law, making it a matter of guesswork!" Here applause interrupted...
...gets out a weekly called Fellowship News. No hellfire evangelist, "Dr. Bob" is zealous, says proudly: "We don't hire any teacher who believes in Evolution. We tell students about Darwin, Huxley and Spencer, but we also tell them that evolution isn't science, it's guesswork...
...sure whether the leading producer is Russia or Canada. Colombia and South Africa produce nearly all the rest. The U. S. piddles along with a couple of thousand ounces. Biggest platinum consumer is the U. S. What the rest of the world consumes is wholly guesswork...
...Next day Chancellor Chamberlain told the Commons that he had asked the great underwriting house of Lloyds to investigate rumors of a leak. Whether on inside information or guesswork, last-minute gamblers were supposed to have collected some $500,000 of insurance against last week's budget increases...