Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Census Bureau last week put a partial end to months of political guesswork when it announced its first official count of U. S. unemployment: 2.508,151. This figure, as of April 1, included only those out of work, able to work, looking for work. It did not include those with jobs who had been laid off without...
...eliminate guesswork and tradition from golf instruction," the Professional Golfers' Association hired a movie camera geared to take 3,200 pictures per second, sent it to Atlanta last week to photograph Robert Tyre ("Robot") Jones Jr., world's best golfer, making his shots. George Sargent, onetime P. G. A. president, superintended the photographing. He said that pictures would also be taken of England's Joyce Wethered, foremost female stylist, and 'of graceful old Harry Vardon. The pictures will be distributed to P. G. A. members to teach them how to teach...
...present welter of things, "Krish-naji sees something saner and finer emerging and a rather soul-sick intelligentsia turn to the astonishing and uncanny vitality of this stripling-scholar, not for bromidic guesswork, but for a bracing challenge to women and men to shake off ''bribe of Heaven and threat of Hell " and stand on their own feet...