Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hotel ballroom rented by Sperry Rand, the firm he heads as board chairman. There, for an hour and a quarter, Five-Star Taxpayer MacArthur lectured stockholders on the evils of confiscatory taxes: "The present tax structure is probably adequate to socialize the United States. The budget is but the guesswork of a small group of individuals, temporarily gathered in Washington, whose previous training and experience has little to do with the nation's need." As the old soldier thundered on, a small stockholder, Mrs. David Davis, miffed because Sperry Rand had not passed out refreshments ("Other companies give...
...wetted finger and the cloud-watching satellite lies the young and booming science of meteorology. A hundred years ago it hardly existed, and for another 50 years few people took it seriously. The "weatherman" was a popular joke, and his vague daily forecasts had little more prestige than the guesswork predictions in farmers' almanacs...
...ancestry to a 16th century astrologer who was hired to prophesy financial trends for the German banking house of Fugger. The art of business prediction has come a long way from its starry-eyed origins. But economists admit readily that their prognostications are still largely a matter of educated guesswork. And in the current uncertainty over the economic outlook, guesstimating fever has reached epidemic pitch. Says one topflight Washington economist: "We work by the seat of our pants more often than we like to admit...
...tremendous improvement found by U.S. researchers should eventually take much of the guesswork out of treatment of subborn infectious diseases...
...Cowl. For all his fame and popularity, there are few more elusive personalities in art than Fra Angelico. So completely did the man and artist live within his monastic cowl and robe, effacing himself within the disciplines of monastic life, that his early life, training and personality are only guesswork. He left no written record of his own. His biographer, Painter-Historian Giorgio Vasari, wrote nearly a century after Fra Angelico's death...