Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ordnance Department, announced that a civilian plant was being tooled up for production of the new piece. The sky-prodder is a 4.7-in. caliber cannon that will hurl shells more than 40,000 feet up-more than seven and a half miles. The range is neither theoretical nor guesswork. An adaptation of an earlier gun, the 4.7 has already been thoroughly tested...
These shortages may be exaggerated, may not. Trouble was that assembly lines cannot be run by guesswork...
...Such an address," they claimed, defeated the purpose of a Senate hearing on the bill, by converting the hearing from a critical appraisal of a proposed piece of legislation into a sounding board for all sorts of political guesswork...
...afraid I shall never be able to accomplish anything sensational, but tackling the Alps will be a relief after the terrible strain we are feeling now. No. I won't talk politics! All my prophecies have been so utterly wrong that it is useless to indulge in more guesswork...
Choosing a college is like choosing a mate: it covers a lot of ground, it is tinged with sentiment and nobody knows exactly how it is done. Last week a professional old grad, Columbia University's Alumni Secretary Clarence E. Lovejoy, tried to reduce the guesswork in college-choosing by publishing a collegiate Baedeker titled So You're Going to College (Simon & Schuster...