Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guesswork. Readers who could make neither head nor tail of the hints were reduced to fantastic speculation...
...effect of the war is a matter of guesswork since as yet there is no concrete evidence of improvement. Germany seems to musically as well as politically bankrupt. On our side, we can't expect war itself to create any radically new values, because it never has been much more than a brief interruption in the slow evolution of a culture. But in the case of music, which originates in emotional attitudes, it can be a tremendous stimulus. For example, Beethoven wrote some of his best work during the German Wars of Liberation. Musical history seems to have developed steadily...
Soviet dispatches hailed Lunin as a hero who had saved a valuable convoy, declared it would take several months to repair the Tirpitz. That was patently guesswork, because the Tirpitz, when last seen, was proceeding under her own steam. When hit, such warships can often close bulkheads and keep going. Her sister ship Bismarck sustained enormously greater damage before going down...
Estimates of the country's potentially effective labor force reached 71,700,000-except for Russia, the greatest pool of industrial manpower in the world. But to win its war the U.S. must shake society to its depths. How deep is still guesswork. The Wall Street Journal judicially and shockingly guessed...
...scholarships began with the following question: 'How many stars are there in the flag of the United States of America-the Star-Spangled Banner?' Two hundred and five students said three stars; 180 said ten; 132 said 24; two said 13; and one said 55; all was guesswork. . . . Later investigations revealed that only two boys have ever seen the American flag, and they saw it in an old newspaper...