Word: guesswork
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...joblessness. Their ignorance is due to the fact that the Federal Government keeps records of those who get jobs, none of those who do not. Largely because there are no incontrovertible figures on unemployment, its size and extent remain a red-hot subject for argument and guesswork...
...94th Pursuit Squadron, Selfridge Field (Mich.), took off at 4 a. m. from Chicago for Cleveland. An icy blast whistled over his open cockpit and below he could see the shimmer of deep drifting snow left by the blizzard. When his radio went dead he had to fight by guesswork along an unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer near Deshler, Ohio, 50 mi. south of the Chicago-Cleveland airway, heard a plane roar over...
...reflection of this greater uncertainly in the West. The small nations southeast of Vienna consequently vacillate timidly between France and Italy with the shadow of Russia ominously towering in the background. Their own particular bones of contention, such as the Macedonian question, they have temporarily buried, while by adroit guesswork they try to pick the side which will come out on top in the next struggle for power. The star of France is in the ascendant now, but the eventual balance will depend on whether the nations wish to preserve the status quo. When the alliances thus to be formed...
...taken. Next morning the grain pits reopened and prices promptly dropped another level lower: dropped and bounced. They mounted rapidly and closed with substantial gains for the day. Thereafter they swung up and down, but neither sudden disaster nor abrupt boom followed. Cause of the arrested fall was guesswork. Some attributed it to talk of the formation of a $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 pool (President Peter B. Carey of the Board of Trade admitted a pool had been discussed) to buy up "distress grain" which threatened the market-the holdings of speculators caught in the July break...
...political effects of the Walker case on the presidential campaign remained a matter of public guesswork and individual speculation. The most widely held view was that developments had hurt Governor Roosevelt and helped President Hoover. The Mayor's resignation had deprived the Governor of a spectacular chance to remove him and thereby win support outside New York as the honest foe of Tammany Hall. Yet Tammany's bitterness toward the Governor was as intense as if he had actually ousted its favorite. The Democratic nominee had lost in New York City without a compensating gain elsewhere. A Walker...