Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beep! Beep!" is to U. S. citizens the nearest phonetic approach to the sound of a certain type of motor horn. To Londoners, ''Beep! Beep!'' is the familiar cry of the cat's meat men, picturesque peddlers who sell to thrifty housewives not the meat of cats but little skewers stuck with carefully diced meat for cats. Last week Britons were startled to learn that at least one cat's meat man is not only picturesque but opulent...
...cabinet, though Hornet Daladier was believed preparing to sting again. In reality Tardieu L'Americain was appealing to French public opinion over the heads of politicians?a trick he may possibly have learned in the U. S. On the face of things his "republicans of good will" commanded no certain majority, last week, but Le Dauphin boldly announced that he would wait five days before facing the Chamber, and in that interval it was entirely possible that the deputies could be cajoled and dazzled into enthroning "the crown prince...
...Prevention of Cruelty to Children heaped bitter denunciation on the pragmatic Harvard Athletic Association. Said the Society: "We will make a quiet appeal to the . . . Association to bring this practice to an end. ... If police arrested the boys they would not be locked in cells. Children have certain rights which older people do not have...
Like a great pumping plant is the U. S. Postal service, pumping current periodicals from the country's publishing reservoirs to individual subscribers. Inevitably a certain amount of the flow is impeded in transit by obsolete or illegible addresses, torn wrappers, clerical stupidity. Undelivered copies of national magazines back up in central post offices like windfalls at a beaverdam. Lately the Post Office Department has authorized postmasters to sell off windfall magazines at public auction...
...them equivalent, in ultimate analysis, to belief in the existence of God." Philosophy (religion) has a very practical importance "in bringing consistency into the relations between different kinds of knowledge." Philosopher Haldane has no fears for the future of religion, but the influence of the Churches, he thinks, "is certain to dwindle more and more unless supernatural belief is banished from their teaching...