Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listings are by no means final, Haines makes it known. Besides the first boat, there still remain three others, one of which will have to be cut by the end of the week. Until time trials are held and the rowers reach racing stroke. Haines won't be absolutely certain on the makeup of his first shell...
...once a week privileged Comrade Hoelvold slips across the border to have a powwow with his friends. The Norwegian government, certain that the U.S.S.R. would make him a cause célèbre at the drop of a warrant, leaves him alone. The army finds him handy as an interpreter in tricky border disputes when a wandering cow or peasant gets lost on the Soviet side. As for the neighbors in Kirkenes-"Damn Communism," they whisper, bowing to Gotfred. "But the Russians could be here in a quarter of an hour. We don't want trouble...
...steady progress." Britain is now paying with exports for 90% of her imports. She had reduced her overall trade deficit from ?630 million in 1947 to ?120 million. At year's end, she actually had a small surplus on hand, though, the report warned, it was not certain that the surplus had "come to stay." Within these overall trade figures, however, was Britain's trade with the dollar countries and her chronic dollar shortage. This problem '-Britain's most urgent-had also been eased. In 1947, the British had bought in dollar countries nearly $3 billion...
Accent on Interest. Beloff complained that, except for a few "radicals such as Chancellor Hutchins of the University of Chicago," there is "a certain lack of boldness" on the part of educators. They seem sold on the idea "that every young person has a right to a higher education, irrespective of ability or previous training." And what is the result? A notion, said Beloff, "that the total number of students is more important than the quality of the work done...
Allergic response may come along three main routes: 1) from certain natural agents such as bacteria, dust and proteins; 2) from such physical agents as heat and cold; 3) from the emotions. Whatever the cause, the final result-whether it shows up as hives or hay fever-is always expanded capillaries...