Word: hunch
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...outcome will be awaited with interest. We have a hunch the plan won't work. Harvard, like the University of Chicago, has the reputation--deserved or undeserved--of being a hard school to stay in. The young men who are looking forward to careers in the professional football league will prefer to take their talents where their education in football is not likely to be cut short...
...achieve this victory Coach John Chase will again try new line combinations. Working on the hunch that you can't long separate Captain Myles Huntington and his old Exeter colleague Dave Abbot, Chase yesterday announced he would reunite Huntington and Abbot on the first line with Low Preston at left wing...
Perhaps the best explanation of all came from Miche's owner, Mrs. John Payson Adams. She had had a hunch before La Sorpresa. "I don't believe Citation has ever run against a grey horse," she said, "and when Miche comes alongside he will think it is just the lead pony and will just jog along...
Rhine contended that he had compiled "significant statistical evidence" to support belief in a "sixth sense" that supplies to the brain information now attributed to "hunch" or "intuition...
...glowering through horn-rimmed glasses, only moving to make a penciled note or rasp a quick order over his shoulder to a subordinate. Again, there was a moment of tense comedy as McNeil (looking remarkably like Arthur Godfrey) listened with polite incredulity to Russia's Amazasp Arutiunian, whose hunch-shouldered delivery and darkling glance were strongly reminiscent of the late Fiorello La Guardia...