Word: guesswork
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blue-eyed guesswork, the story of Hadrian's adventures in the Vatican carries a kind of unshakable conviction. Nor is it all a vision: Rolfe is well aware of the humor of his hero's situation, and plays it often for laughs and even for smiles. Yet when the Pope at last dies, felled by an assassin, the moment is quite as high and tragic as the language Rolfe renders...
...exceptional cases in which drugs from Groups I and II should be used together are those which have often proved hardest to treat-where a strain of bacteria shows extreme resistance to a widely used antibiotic like streptomycin. But even in these cases laboratory tests have proved better than guesswork...
...science-minded 20th century, Sigmund Freud applied psychoanalytical guesswork to the problem. He decided that the Mona Lisa was actually an idealization of Leonardo's own mother...
...conclusions precise, rigorous, and well thought out, but one cannot help noticing that at the bottom of all this is an ingredient somewhat less convincing: the questionnaire itself. As pointed out in yesterday's editorial, and as recognized by the Report's authors, the poll's questions require some guesswork. The questions used for this section of the Report are by necessity even vaguer than those used in the section on teaching methods, for they refer to what goes on within students--changes which are difficult to perceive and even harder to distill into a phrase or two. This inevitably...
...such is 1)good 2)bad (3) type of questionnaire. The resulting questions, such as how much has G.E. "improved your ability in dealing with problems effectively and critically...?" are enough to tax even the most sensitive and perceptive student, and his decision must be considered as partly guesswork. Second, many of those asked for information had to draw deeply on memories of courses long since completed...