Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With three games gone, Lamar is more sure of his lineup, which so far has been largely a matter of guesswork. Don Cass will probably be promoted to a starting role at end, and Bill Campbell is being brought up from the "B" team to strengthen the backfield...
...experimental stage, have had some extraordinary results. They are not always sure just how or why their techniques work, but so long as the patient gets better, they are content to plug away at the techniques and let the theories wait. Psychiatrists use great doses of good will, some guesswork, and a few tricks picked up from mankind's troubled past...
Young Washington (the first two volumes bring him up to the age of 27) is 1,013 pages of solid fact and educated guesswork buttressed with 5,440 footnotes, uncompromisingly set below the text. For the popular, novelized biography, full of glib insights into the inner man, Freeman has nothing but contempt. His dogged intent is to portray Washington day by day and "year by year, through each new experience, as if nothing were known and nothing were certain about his future...
When ex-funnyman Charles A. "Muddy" Rheault, Jr. announced his decision to retire from active competition after his performance Friday, the guesswork was narrowed down to E.N. Carpenter, E.M. Pope, Jr., and three men named Livingston...
Suggestion. In Prince Rupert, B.C., police investigated the name on a fishing boat, Guess Who?, dispensed with guesswork, scraped off the name to uncover the old one, pinched the fisherman for boat-stealing...