Word: hunch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regurgitated hunch judgment of 120,000,000 people...
...Rhinebeck Valley, where he owns an eight-acre farm., In his boyhood days in Maryland and Kansas these neighbors would have been called dumb Swedes, squareheads, Dagos, Polacks, Heinies, wops, troublemakers, agitators and so forth. In Rhinebeck they were just neighborly Americans, Republicans, Democrats. Seabrook had a hunch that elsewhere in the U. S. the foreign born were equally good citizens. He decided to take a look for himself...
...colossal, it plays second fiddle to the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, grand finale of the 57-day meet. As the field of 15 three-year-olds paraded to the post, Sun Egret was the favorite and William du Font's Dauber had a large following; but hunch players and a few sentimentalists were betting on Stagehand, a shiny bay colt owned by Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio...
...Howard's trainer. Because Earl Sande in his riding days had won 967 races (including three Kentucky Derbies and five Belmont Stakes), earned $3,000,000 for his employers, and had the reputation of being able to do more with a horse than anyone else in the world, hunch money last week was going down fast on Sande-trained Stagehand. But seasoned railbirds figured that the Sande protege, a slow starter, would get into a jam in the crowded field...
...articles and of Modern Physics, a popular college textbook. He realizes quite well the need for further checking of his findings. "I'm out on a limb now," he said philosophically last week. "I hope this thing stands up." He also said that he had got his original hunch while reading TIME'S story on the X-particle in the issue of November...