Although there is practically as little doubt about the antiquity of Icelandic literature[161] as about its interest, there is unusual room for guesswork as to the exact dates of the documents which compose it.
He went his nearest to meeting her hand, and his guesswork was not much at fault.
No very close analysis of the sublatent impulses and motives of its actors is professed or attempted; only a fringe of guessworkat the best.
Many others, a degree less simple in their methods, will take some entirely partial aspect, arrive at some guesswork decision upon that, and then behave as though that met every question we have to face.
The Germans are blind now, they have lost the air, they are firing by guesswork and their knowledge of the abandoned territory.
They knew that Tom's father, in his work among the poor foreigners in New York, often had to try to hunt up their relatives in Europe so that this would not be a matter of guesswork with him.
It's pretty much guesswork in this war time," admitted Tom when some one suggested it.
This took the project of canal construction out of the domain of preconceived ideas based upon guesswork into the substantial field of a scientific undertaking for commercial purposes.
It was this kind of guesswork and conjecture which was advanced as an argument by engineers of eminence and sustained by one of the foremost statesmen of the century.
For this reason guesswork must continue to play an important part in economic history.
We can therefore substitute sound diagnosis for guesswork more frequently in modern than in historical problems.
Trade bias, personal impressions and guessworktook the place of scientific method.
Then he pulled himself up with the shocked sense, now become recurrent, that he had never allowed himself to attack Anne's fair dignity with the weapon of unsuppressed guesswork about her inner motives.
She had one of her moments of clever guesswork over him.
We lawyers know what guesswork Medicine is: we see it in the witness-box.
But the fire of cross-examination melted all his polysyllables into guesswork and hearsay.
It was guesswork to trace his footsteps, but the elder youth made the effort.
Bear in mind," Tozer hastened to add, "that it's all guesswork on my part.
And any sort of guesswork under these circumstances only increases our difficulties.
As we have seen, Roman scholars themselves explained Nerio Martis as equivalent to Virtus Martis; Herie Iunonis probably means something of the same kind; the others are not so easily explained, and guesswork about them is unprofitable.
As near as I can find out, it's mostly guesswork, and poor guesswork at that.
It's only guesswork at best, Mr. Wade," said Christopher.
From the nature of things there is no limit to mere guesswork of this kind.
Tradition and ingenious guesswork add a little more which can be neither proved nor disproved.
Oh, a man lets out a lot of guesswork when he is nervous about his own business.
A psychologist might make much out of the subject by discussing concentration sublimated, human senses coordinating sight and sound on the instant, a sort of sixth sense which must be passed on into the limbos of guesswork as instinct.
In nearly all of America's accidents, guesswork is the real cause.
All through the plant they found the same state of affairs--careless men, unguarded machinery, guesswork everywhere.
The moment I realized that, I said to myself, 'It's high time America dropped guesswork out of its daily life.
This will eliminate guesswork and enable you to have the suite you want to sell set up under such conditions, and with such accessories and related merchandise as will bring out its individuality.
So far as is possible, eliminate the element of guessworkin showing merchandise.
Science is only a sort of decorous guesswork at the best, guesswork corroborated by facts.
No Guesswork in Nature ΒΆ Nature has no accidents.
The new system which is popularly supposed to have eliminated allguesswork has in reality done nothing of the kind.
Skeat, "exalted impudent assertions far above positive evidence," it has boldly substituted a new form of guesswork which is just as reckless and in many respects is no less impudent than the old.
Just in the first dawn of that September day we went out, my companion and I, at guesswork to hunt in the most amusing kind of hunting, which is the hunting of an army.
The soil is the same; the conditions of that soil are excellent for its retention; but a year's work has taught me that there is no reconstructing it save by hypothesis and guesswork from this point to the crossing of the Thames.
There was no compass in the craft, and it would take some nice guesswork to find a ship three miles away.
The simple but amazing facts disclosed during the past five years render the dreams, speculations and guesswork of the past absurd.
The simple but amazing facts disclosed during the past five years, render the dreams, speculations and guesswork of the past absurd.
It is not all guesswork to begin with; indeed it is not guesswork at any moment if the end is always in view, and we had to begin with the end.
But the guesswork of scientific inquirers is very different now from what it was in older times.
The first great cosmological speculation which has been raised quite above the plane of guesswork by making no other assumption than that of the uniformity of nature, is the well-known Nebular Hypothesis.
There is one direction especially in which this continuous limitation of guesswork by ever-accumulating experience has manifested itself.
