Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is terse; it might do poorer, But it harbors a certain addiction: Quotations that swear and letters in poetry, Are items it uses without restraint...
...Passed a bill authorizing $25,000 to be spent policing the Hoover inauguration. ¶Passed a bill authorizing additional appropriations for vocational education. ¶Passed a bill transferring certain Indian claims in Idaho, Kansas and Oregon to the U. S. Court of Claims for settlement. ¶Passed a bill covering settlement by Interior Department of damage claims from Federal irrigation works on Indian-owned land...
...that it would run around the track at a steady speed just a little higher than the average speed of the previous record holder, and instruct the runner to follow the flag exactly, one would eliminate another difficulty, that of pacing at the exact speed best for a certain race...
...fire companies more or less organized this system, providing an engine house for the pump, and delegating only a certain proportion of the population to the duty of fire fighting. At every outbreak, the firemen of different ranks were there in full regalla, distingulshed by white leather painted caps with gilded fronts, ornamented by the insignia of the engineers, fire wardens, or ordinary firemen. The mayor, recorder, and aldermen were also supposed to be present, although their value as fire-fighters was problematical, and could be known by their white wands with a gilded flame at the top. Perhaps...
...makeup of the Crimson quartet, however, is not certain, for although the names of the team which defeated M. I. T. in the Arena last Saturday have been entered in the Millrose games, there is a possibility that F. E. Cummings '31, star dash man last season, may be relieved from probation in time for the New York meet. The names announced last night were F. E. Cummings '31, R. G. Gould '30, W. C. Rowe '31, G. A. Tupper '29 and V. L. Hennessy '30. The only other Crimson man in the meet will be A. L. Watkins...