Word: outguessing
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...with the studied inconsistencies of Bertha Eastmond, the train conductor's daughter who presided over the contents of the little black and orange book for nearly 40 years until her death in 1960. But the mysterious tribunal that sits in judgment in her stead is still impossible to outguess-even in terms of getting one's listing switched from one of the eleven other regional editions to the New York book. It may take years, or it may never happen. (Neither Serena Russell nor her parents are in the Register...
Whitla said that exams such as the California Psychological Inventory, which measures non-intellectual characteristics employed in predicting college freshmen grades, merely encourage a kind of "gamesmanship" in which the student tries to outguess the questionner's purpose...
Last Sunday a Midwest newspaper headline characterized the Crimson's previous performance as "Outweighed but not Outguessed." The varsity, like their quarterback, are again outweighed but seem able to outguess once more the opposition and gain its second win of the season
Both squads were fresh and stimulated by upset victories. Both were evenly balanced and dangerous. When the University of North Carolina met the University of Miami at the Orange Bowl last week, the central question was: Which coach would outguess the other? "Miami runs like hell, and they may pass, too. I don't know what to do," moaned North Carolina Coach Jim Tatum. Big Jim even telephoned to Georgia Tech's clever coach. Bobby Dodd, for some last-minute advice. "Tighten up the middle if you want to stop Miami's power," Dodd warned him. Concluded...
...added that a "good coach must be a mastermind of football and be able not only to outguess and outsmart his opponents, but above all, he must qualify as the very best type of instructor, able to impart his knowledge of all phases of the game to the eager beavers who make up his squad...