Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...killed was a Negro seaman. The rest of the crew, in irons, were carried to New Orleans aboard the Dexter. Admiral Billard was positive the pursuit began within the twelve-mile limit and therefore within the terms of the British Rum Treaty. But the British embassy was not so sure...
...interest in English on the part of the country's youth is a likely result. For the school boys in the far corners of the globe who learn English for the first time from the lips of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, the language will have a rare attraction sure to make it popular...
...belief, are the natives of the Congo," asserted P. T. L. Putnam '25, who has just returned home to Boston after a year spent in the wilds of equatorial Africa, where he has been studying the life and customs of the negroes. "And so I'm not at all sure that the entrance of civilization into the jungle will benefit them...
...Many of the social problems that loom up so ominously before us today will eventually be solved. I feel sure, by experimental work in sociology such as we have recently undertaken at Minnesota," declared Pitirim Sorokin, professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, and one of the foremost sociologists in the world today. "While as yet we have attempted nothing on a large scale, we have obtained results that quite clearly indicate the future possibilities for an advanced development in this field...
...Coffroth Handicap climaxes 100 days of racing, attracting horses from famed Eastern and Southern stables, but odd things happen to horses, and many prime jockies do not ride there. Touts peddling tips are numerous and all offer the gambling tourist a sure thing on every race. Yet even touts in their surpassing wisdom disappear mysteriously toward the paddock between races to find "which ones are trying...