Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...East, to heavy old Glosters. vibrating like aerial pianos. Just as the Germans did on May 10 in the Low Countries, the R. A. F. and the Fleet Air Arm blinded the enemy. British squadrons bombed airfields from Sidi Barrani right to Tripoli. For hours the Italians could only guess what was happening. At the same time the British Fleet swung in to bombard Maktila, Sidi Barrani and the Italians' road to the rear. The Italians were attacked simultaneously from the right (land) flank by tanks, from the left (sea) flank by the fleet, from the top (air) flank...
...Inspector of Military Academies August Heiszmeyer, 43, father of six. She announced: "We are marrying Dec. 6, thus giving our ten children a joint home." The Rcichsfrauenführerin became in fact the symbol of the perfect Nazi woman. What happened to her first husband was anybody's guess. Guess: He was in a concentration camp...
Christened. Winston Churchill II, blue-eyed, seven-week-old son of freshman M. P. Randolph Churchill. Godfather: Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. Prime Minister Churchill left his work long enough to be present. Scene of the christening was censored. Best guess: the House of Commons crypt...
...organization of the Conference of theological Seminaries and Colleges in the United States and Canada. The intervening years have been spent by that organization mainly in a study of the forces and the nature of the Protestant ministry and its professional training. We now have, in place of guess-work, reliable information as to these matters. Meanwhile the Conference has been drawing up a list of accredited theological schools, which have academic equipment and standards of decent graduate school level. The attempt to establish such standards has, of course, aroused resentment in those quarters where piety is cultivated...
...varsity basketball team opens its season tonight against M.I.T. at the Tech Rangar, and no one seems to be willing to hazard a guess as to how it will come out. The game will go on as soon as the Vardling quintet has finished its curtain vaiser, which is scheduled to begin at 7 o'clock...