Word: hazarding
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Alfred S. Romer, Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said he was unsure how "this very tidy sum" would be used. "I wouldn't even dare to hazard a guess as to what will be the Museum's pressing needs in 140 years . . ." he chuckled...
...city folk were surfeited with the Democrats on general principle. Perhaps they were ired over what Republicans clangorously call Bungles, or over corruption, or inflation, or Reds in Government. While cautioning you to await the large studies of this year's vote which will soon be under way, we hazard a guess. We fear that the defection of the cities is the work of the Reds in Government issue and its extrapolators, the work of men who, were it not for the atmosphere of panic that inevitably attends struggles with modern totalitarianism, would amount to nothing but small-time opportunists...
...state by at least 150,000 votes for a third two-year term. Even the arch-Republican Boston Traveler, on the basis of its own polls, reluctantly admits that Dever will win almost every major city in the state, and thereby offset any Republican rural vote. But few hazard predictions on the Kennedy-Lodge contest. The youthful, touseled-haired Kennedy is a highly effective campaigner, but Lodge has shown surprising strength at unexpected moments. Kennedy has attached himself to Dever's ample coat-tails, and by this, expects to slip into office...
...enemies," said Stevenson, "cannot be permitted to get close to the bloodstream of America, particularly its Government. I don't believe oaths and affidavits are much good, for a real Communist never hesitates to lie. Nor is catching and punishing Communists after their treachery enough to end the hazard...
...recent dorm meeting the girls were asked to keep the passage-way to the door clear when saying their goodnights, and if any prolonged adieus were in order to please step around the corner to Moors, where the steps are considerably wider and there is less of a traffic hazard...