Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artistic merits of the type of music represented by Krenek's opera are sure to be unsettled for a long time; but this very difference of opinion and the debatable questions inspired by it give pungency to every performance of works in the new manner. The old has played to nearly empty houses; the new has at least regained interest...
...Enright has often torn down the stands with a goodbye blessing in his heart, only to see them rise again the next fall after the track season, when a 220 yard straight-away is necessary. This time, how ever, he feels sure is final, because the stands have been pronounced unsafe as a fire hazard...
...Manhattan, Michael ("Sure-Seater") Mindlin opened a theatre (Little Carnegie Playhouse) with a card & chess room, with free coffee & Marlborough cigarets, permission to smoke, walls decorated in modernistic colors, girl-ushers selected for their beauty, a dance room and a ping-pong court with three tiers of upholstered seats for spectators. There is no sound device...
Nevertheless, I sympathize with his motives. While I was attempting to undermine the republic that afternoon I was greatly hampered by many boisterous gentlemen of Mr. Hubbard's day and age who were busily undermining the Constitution in ways with which Mr. Hubbard may be familiar. And I feel sure I have a supporter in the cameraman who was knocked out that afternoon by a flying tackle from the rear by one of Mr. Hubbard's buddies--perhaps another doughty upholder of the country's sacred institutions. Un-Menckenly yours Edward F. Clark...
...wide as the proportion of applicants for admission accepted by colleges diminishes. The chances that the student who averages seventy percent in his entrance examinations will have greater capacity for college work than the student who averages sixty five by no means amount to certainty. Still less can a sure distinction be made between the eighty and seventy five...