Word: guesswork
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...somber prediction that has unfortunately come true. Accused of writing their play from today's headlines, authors Leonard Mins and Edward Mabley unknowingly cut to the core of our occupational troubles in their 1944 gamble, a premonition that has given them a play and the world a headache. Their guesswork has turned out a shockingly accurate and courageous play that reaches the stage as the theatre's first belated attempt to bring the post-war problems close to an escapist audience...
...developments expected from the test will be a more accurate measuring of the size and composition of meteorite material, which will be gauged by the intensity and length of the light flashed in the man-made demonstration in December. These computations will take much of the guesswork out of meteorological calculations, Dr. Whipple conjectured...
...Fact or Guesswork? By examining General Motors' books, the fact-finding panel could obtain detailed information on 1) the company's recent costs and profits on war contracts, and 2) costs and profits in making automobiles four years...
Armed with these facts, the board could estimate probable General Motors earnings under new costs (including wages), new selling prices and new market conditions. This is the "arithmetic" of the company's ability to pay-but it is more a matter of expert guesswork than of fact-finding. Any mistake in the panel's business forecasting, if used to determine wages, could prove costly to the company, or even to the union...
Last week, the University of Chicago announced that Tugwell would teach political science and direct a new department of civic planning there, starting next July 1. His job, says his new boss, Dean Robert Redfield, will be to develop planning as "a science instead of guesswork . . . [to provide] special research instead of hunches, for instance, to predict population changes . . . [to] develop a coordinated view of the community as a whole...