Word: guesswork
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...gets out a weekly called Fellowship News. No hellfire evangelist, "Dr. Bob" is zealous, says proudly: "We don't hire any teacher who believes in Evolution. We tell students about Darwin, Huxley and Spencer, but we also tell them that evolution isn't science, it's guesswork...
...sure whether the leading producer is Russia or Canada. Colombia and South Africa produce nearly all the rest. The U. S. piddles along with a couple of thousand ounces. Biggest platinum consumer is the U. S. What the rest of the world consumes is wholly guesswork...
...Next day Chancellor Chamberlain told the Commons that he had asked the great underwriting house of Lloyds to investigate rumors of a leak. Whether on inside information or guesswork, last-minute gamblers were supposed to have collected some $500,000 of insurance against last week's budget increases...
...breathing dust. During the height of the storm, railway traffic was at a standstill. When high winds swept the dust Eastward Kansas City had night at midday and people walked the streets with handkerchiefs tied across their faces. How great was the crop damage remained largely a matter of guesswork. Oklahoma grimly reported that 50% of the wheat in the Western part of the State was ruined. An Oklahoman was said to have fainted when a drop of rain fell on his head, to have been revived only when two buckets of sand were thrown in his face...
...Commander Hayes of the American Legion can hope to supply a cure for our troubles and still cling to the methods of a hundred and fifty years ago!" And I might add Jesse James. But this is utterly meaningless, a mere hodge-podge of names and inconsistencies, mere guesswork. And nothing is said by way of clearing up this hopeless jumble. Or perhaps he was being witty? Further comment needless, such statements as quoted can be most irritating. They are an insult to one's intelligence. They forfeit any claim to intellectual integrity. Alfred M. Nittle...