Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Using the brain-toughener on the fistulous young woman was a "hunch" the immediate success of which amazed Dr. Cutler and his young associate, Dr. Robert Milton Zollinger. Protecting her throat from the caustic effects of the fluid, they merely flushed out the fistula. The flushing burned the lining of the fistula. As the walls healed they grew together, closing the abnormal passage in the neck...
When the Chicago thing was settled, President Hoover was not surprised. For months he had had a hunch that the Democrats would pick Governor Roosevelt to run against him. Mr. Roosevelt was his favorite candidate, the one he was told he could most easily beat. All aglow from medicine ball the President sat on the South Lawn of the White House with his fruit & coffee and listened to the second ballot at Chicago. That evening in the Lincoln Study he heard the fourth, final ballot. He had last seen "Frank" Roosevelt during the Governors Conference in Richmond in April. They...
Most advertising is done on a hunch and it is extremely difficult to tell just what is the effect of a given advertisement. It has been found, however, this the same appeal works here and in Europe. Testimonial advertisements for cold creams are more effective when the writer is pretty and has a fairly widely recognized name than when the name is world famous and the face old or haggard...
...market he was elected a director of an investment trust. At his first (and last) meeting the directors were discussing what to do with their stocks. Errett Cord was silent until someone asked him what he thought. He answered: "I think the stuff you own is lousy and a hunch of hooey. Throw it all out." Shocked, the directors ignored his advice, to their everlasting regret. He resigned soon afterward...
...last week, after Sir George Hubert Wilkins and his Arctic exploring submarine Nautilus had for six days ceased communication with anxious radio stations, his pretty wife exclaimed in London: "I have a hunch tonight will bring good news...