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...Wanted Out) gave what Mrs. Steiner considers the only ethical answer: "The problem of a disobedient child is far too delicate and complicated to be solved by 'remote control.' " (Apparently none of the columnists knows how their advice turns out, Mrs. Steiner says. Their advice is therefore guesswork...
...thobber is a person who prefers guesswork to investigation and reinforces his beliefs by asserting them frequently.* All who use pseudo-science as a short-cut cure for troubles, especially mental ills, are thobbers to some extent-e.g., those who apply to astrologers, numerologists, graphologists, self-styled psychologists with fake degrees (Ps.D., Ms.D.), spiritualists, hypnotists, some beauticians and gymnasium proprietors and advice-to-the-lovelorn editors...
Rundstedt set up his attack like a chessmaster. Good guesswork or good forecasting told him the Rhine Valley would be covered with weather the first two weeks of December. Under such a blanket he moved divisions with a minimum chance of Allied air observation. His G-2 never functioned better...
...submarines have definitely sunk an astounding total of 503 Jap ships (not counting 150 others in the "guesswork" category called "probably sunk or damaged"), an average of 4½ Jap ships for each of the 113 submarines that the U.S. had at the time of Pearl Harbor. As more U.S. submarines bore through to the Pacific, no Jap ship is safe from undersea attack, in harbor or at sea, alone or in convoy, near home or at the fringes of Japan's empire...
Causes. Most widely cited "reasons" for the sudden upsurge (all pure Wall Street guesswork...