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...however, we found that we could put the canvas to a year-round use, we might consider it. It might be used in the spring to protect the baseball diamond from rain or possibly as a covering to the baseball grandstand. At present the whole project is nothing but guesswork...
Until President Coolidge's course of action begins to develop all vaticination is guesswork. There is but one fact evident at this time: The reins of power are in new hands? hands that were previously active, but have lately been idle. The personality of Calvin Coolidge has slept in the Chair of the Senate. Has it awakened...
There is a real misunderstanding here, and the real cause of this misunderstanding is guesswork and suspicion in the mind of the public. The business man must meet this misunderstanding frankly and a concrete explanation of the facts will eliminate the suspicions which have hindered the willingness of part of the public to co-operate...
Some inquiring mind has put a slip among the "Notes and Queries," in the Library, asking: "How many men at Harvard are in favor of prohibition? If you don't know, guess." There are several answers, denoting a varied process of guesswork: 96 per cent.; 2 per cent.; 47 per cent.; 53 per cent.; 90 per cent.; 10 per cent.; 66 2-3 per cent.; 33 1-3 per cent.; 0 per cent.; 1-5 per cent, and 1-100 per cent...
...endurance, and speed as their record of 7.17 1/2 in the short race and 18.44 1/2 in the three-mile race shows. The times for all the test-races are found to be from 8 1/2 to 10 seconds too fast, as the course - which was laid out by guesswork - proved, on being surveyed after the races, to be 130 feet 9 inches short of the proper distance. Hence the exact speed of the crews over a course of the proper length can only be guessed at. Altogether the regatta cannot be called an unqualified success...