Word: hunch
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...Dictator Mustafa Kemal's boundless disgust last week, he proved to have been right in his hunch that most Istanbul high-school students would flunk if their helpful teachers were kept out of examination rooms. When this precaution was taken, 75% of the students flunked, created a situation so tense that the Ministry of Education announced fresh examinations for students who failed, added that this time their teachers will be present. After that drastic reforms will be enforced...
...news flashed to Wall Street, and speculators, thinking of inflation, began to sell U. S. bonds until the Government hastily came to their rescue with bids higher than the prices at which they were for sale. The news flashed to London and traders sold dollars on the hunch that the U. S. dollar was once more on the road to perdition. It flashed to Shanghai and hundreds of Chinese who had sold silver short spent a frantic night in fear of ruin. It flashed to Nevada and hopeful miners began to talk of silver at $1.29 an oz., of opening...
...Beebe had intended to try for a half-mile dive, but at 2,510 ft. he had a hunch, he said later, that he had better not go down any farther. While he was yammering excitedly into the mouthpiece, Mr. Barton exposed 25 ft. of cinema film and took five stills on supersensitive plates. Soon the dripping ball was on the barge deck again and the divers popped out. Said Dr. Beebe: "I have never seen so much stuff in my life, and new stuff, too. It is the silliest thing in the world to attempt to describe...
...dull-witted police operator (Pat Pendleton) surmises that the inventor committed both crimes. While gayly consuming enormous quantities of whiskey and gin, Nick Charles chats with the inventor's mercenary wife, his pretty daughter, his neurotic son. an assortment of thugs, lawyers and policemen, suavely verifies his hunch that the inventor is entirely innocent...
...Horses. Every Derby nominee has its loyal coterie of sentimentalists and hunch-players. But in the past decade, a rank outsider has won just once. Handicappers, form-players and "hard boots" consequently narrowed their choice among five horses...