Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...editions of Shakespeare give the reader much sense of where the words he reads come from. Some of them, of course, come from Shakespeare; but many are the additions of collaborators, the mistakes of printers and scribes, the faulty recollection of actors, the alterations of bowdlerizers and the guesswork of editors. The Riverside text, prepared by Gwynne B. Evans, professor of English, over the last 13 years is so uncompromising in sticking to the best sources that some of his readings may not be popular: he replaces "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" with "a rose...
...course, before early June, there's almost no way to find out the degree recipients except by pure guesswork and conjecture--but don't be surprised if Archibald Cox '34 ends up on the Commencement platform in June...
Davis acknowledges that his terrifying scenarios are based on a large quotient of guesswork. Meteorologists may not ever achieve enough mastery over hurricanes to affect the earth's heat balance. Still, the warning echoes a theme that is finding widening support among thoughtful scientists: man must learn much more about nature's most elemental forces before he tampers with them...
...also suggests that rational science may be limited in its ability to comprehend nature; at best it can only arrive at certain statistical probabilities in determining, say, where an electron is at any given moment. the concept that the universe cannot be known by more definite methods that such "guesswork" was so revolutionary that even Einstein could no accept it. " God does not play dice with the universe," he insisted...
...tries to correct malformations in a child's teeth and jaw, he must attempt to figure out how these parts will change as the youngster matures. Dr. Geoffrey Walker of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry has come up with a method that promises to reduce the guesswork involved in this process. He has taken 15,000 skull-profile X rays made over a period of years and converted these pictures to coordinate maps of the skull and jaw. The result is a computer model capable of predicting how a jaw will grow. With just a single...