Word: outguessing
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...bill a dangerously blank check did not worry about Jesse Jones's cashing it. Congress had learned to trust him. Said Hamilton Fish: "I believe that this fund is in safe hands when placed at the disposal of Jesse Jones. ... I would bet on Jesse Jones to outguess and outbargain Hitler, Mussolini. ..." The House passed the bill (218-to-116), sent it on to conference, where no trouble is expected...
...anticipates the production trend; that the '39 Wall Street doldrums had called the turn on the new business recession; that last week's sprint meant more capacity operations around the corner. But bears (to whom most news is bad news) remembered the Chrysler trader who failed to outguess the tape. They reasoned that the market's way of rising is to go down 1, up 2; that its way of falling is to go down 2, up 1; that last week's rally will soon be just another pointless zigzag in a longer decline...
...logic cannot predict where the next battles will be fought because: i) military men are often stupid, and 2) each side is trying to outguess the other and knows that the least likely point of attack is often the most profitable. Today General Staffs have the map of Europe spread before them and are playing a shell game with one another. Instead of three shells, however, they have half-a-dozen, each covering one of Europe's theatres of war. Not till the big guns blow the shells to bits will anyone know under which shell lies...
...ability to foresee, to outguess, to improvise, to make the best of what you have, is absolutely necessary to the successful military "scientist." The Allies almost lost the World War because Britain's Lord Kitchener had grown stodgy, because France's Foch kept mistaking a trench "war of position" fof an open "war of maneuver," because the campaign to take the Dardanelles got under way too slowly. Britain's Sir Douglas Haig threw away a chance for a decisive breakthrough when he allowed the new invention of the tank to appear on the western front prematurely, without...