Word: guess
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...Only a guess can be made as to the cause of this peculiar typhus endemic; and no one up to last week had made that guess. Some agency other than man and his lice would appear to be responsible for the long preservation of the typhus virus in those limited districts. That agency, be it insect alone or an insect which feeds on some host other than man, must be correspondingly limited in its distribution. Or at least its capacity for acting as a vector to man must be so limited...
...business-like desk, facing reporters. For a whole month he has refused to talk; but now he put words like pistol shots, with candor and precision. More was learned in five minutes about the new Committee and what it purposes to accomplish than correspondents have been able to guess in the last six months...
...Baldwin!" cried the attendant at the doll booth, "You must guess. Please, you really must!" and the eyes of the attendant, a blooming, wholesome girl, twinkled, danced...
...Very well, my dear," said the Lady of Downing Street, "I really cannot guess, but we'll say their names are the same as my husband's and my own, 'Stanley' and 'Lucy...
...They are! They are!" cried the dancing-eyed girl. "We named them 'specially, and I knew you'd guess...