Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flying colonel's hunch to keep away from political talks was surely a sound one. For to say that the war is no banding together against a Genghis Khan but a mere squabble between nations 15 to reveal, not merely the foot of clay, but far worse, the head of bone...
Hull's Hunch...
...cancer problems in Basle, Switzerland, he noticed a cup of steaming hot coffee and one of tea resting side by side on a window sill. The steam from both cups condensed on the window pane, but the crystals of the frost patterns were very different. Dr. Pfeiffer had a hunch that the blood of cancer victims and the blood of healthy persons might perhaps form crystals as different as those of coffee and tea. After trying some 23 substances, he hit on copper chloride as blood's best crystallizing agent. Last week Dr. Pfeiffer and his colleague, Dr. George...
Last week as the option deadline lapsed, the four stayed clam-silent. This meant that United might have to pay more for the six DC-4s it bought last fortnight. But it also meant that if President Patterson's hunch is sound, when the DC-4s are operating in 1941, United might bag the lion's share of transcontinental air traffic...
...those who would take Government out of business: "That school is eager to gamble the safety of the nation and of our system of private enterprise on nothing more than their personal hunch that if Government will just keep its hands off the economic system customers will just happen. . . . They are actually the wildesteyed radicals in our midst. . . . We are conservative New Dealers...