Word: guesswork
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...present welter of things, "Krish-naji sees something saner and finer emerging and a rather soul-sick intelligentsia turn to the astonishing and uncanny vitality of this stripling-scholar, not for bromidic guesswork, but for a bracing challenge to women and men to shake off ''bribe of Heaven and threat of Hell " and stand on their own feet...
...Mellon: 1) Money is borrowed in advance of actual needs with a consequent loss of interest; 2) The Treasury must give the certificates, which it sells at par, as low an interest rate as possible, yet high enough to meet momentary conditions of the money market. This involves difficult guesswork...
...much the smugglers and their customers spend is a matter for guesswork. But Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney-General, was able to put a figure, in her annual report, on at least one item-$18,883,541 worth (Canadian value) of Canadian whiskies exported to the U. S. in 1928. Previous years: 1925, 10.7 millions; 1926, 15.4 millions; 1927, 17.1 millions...
...London Evening Standard alone eschewed guesswork, chartered a plane exactly like Loewenstein's, sent up a "burly reporter" with a rope around his waist. After several times "hurling himself at the door" the reporter reported the impossibility of opening it against the pressure of the 300 mile gale...
...Secretary of Commerce Hoover, after warning that all flood control estimates were guesswork so far, last week guessed that the program would be managed for 20 or 30 millions per annum for 10 years. These costs, he thought, should not deter tax reduction. š Arbitration commissions established by treaties with Britain and France...