Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows to what extent cigarettes irritate the throat. But one thing is certain: cigarette advertising irritates the Journal of the American Medical Association...
President Truman had thundered about the "privileged Wall Street gluttons." The "gluttons" last week looked more like frightened rabbits. As the G.O.P. defeat* became certain early Wednesday, panicky stockholders jammed the wires with orders to brokers to sell. By the time the New York Stock Exchange opened at 10 a.m., sell orders so far exceeded buy orders that initial transactions on many key stocks were delayed for as long as three hours...
...Bark. There was no doubt that the stock market, which had been as certain as everyone else of a G.O.P. victory, was panicked by all the Democratic talk of stand-by price controls, an excess-profits tax, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, and demands for wage boosts from tough, confident unions backed by a labor-minded Administration (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But calmer businessmen recalled that it was a Democratic Congress which had let OPA die, that President Truman had approved the repeal of the wartime excess-profits tax in 1945, and that wage boosts were bound to come anyway...
...rights of undergraduate organizations. It must take a definite stand against the disruption of meetings in the campus by organized groups--such events have been all too frequent here at Harvard in the last few months. Only by exposing the hysteria which caused this attack can we make certain that it will not be repeated...
...drama. She was, as she says, just a middle-class mortal. Following this tradition, Giradoux's Alkmena is a tender, faithful, loving wife with no desire to fulfill her destiny with Bulfinch's mythology. In the role, Anna Prince was all that Giradoux requires and brought, in addition, a certain luxuriousness to the part that added immeasurably to the play. Unfortunately, however, Miss Prince is not always understandable. Striving for variety in her voice, some of her lines became lost in a flood of sheer inflection. With that corrected, Miss Prince should give abundant pleasure...