Word: hunch
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...flock of 75 newshawks which alighted at Tacoma to cover the Northwest's biggest snatch. Oldster Dreher justified his 40 years in the business with an oldtime scoop. Somehow he got word of Farmer Bonifas' early morning call to the Tacoma police. "On one of those hunches that come like a royal flush," wrote Reporter Dreher afterward, "I started out in a taxicab to meet the farmer's automobile." Meet it he did. He commandeered the child, dragged him down on the floor of the taxi in case any of his rivals might have had a similar...
Last week Dr. Robinson announced that his hunch was correct, that pledgets of pure allantoin (C 4 H 6 O 3 N 4 ) may be poked into a wound to promote healing, that rarely hereafter need anyone endure the squirming of maggots in his live flesh...
Though Andrew Ellicott Douglass is a capable astronomer and director of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, he is most widely renowned for his pioneer work on the growth of tree rings. More than three decades ago Dr. Douglass had a great hunch and started examining the rings on yellow pines. By the time he had made 10,000 meticulous measurements and compared them with weather records he had verified what he suspected from the first-that the thickness of each year's growth ring is proportional to the amount of rainfall that year. It was clear...
Jewish women are pouring into Palestine "from every country," according to Vice President Isaacs. Shrewd, they noted that the Jewish pioneers of Palestine are predominantly male, lonely, susceptible. Today they are cashing in magnificently on their hunch...
Last fortnight, dangling 2,510 ft. down in the sea off Bermuda in the hollow steel ball he calls a bathysphere, William Beebe had a "hunch" that he and Otis Barton, his fellow bathyspherist, had better not go deeper (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week not a hunch but lack of cable held him back. Down went the bathysphere, down past all previous records, down to 3,028 ft. At that point only 47 ft. of cable were left on the winch above. The barge cap tain ordered that no more be paid out. The bathysphere was kept...