Word: hunching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...