Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good as it is supposed to be. They think there is something incalculable, headstrong, moody, in Mr. Hoover's temperament which would make the White House, if he were President, a centre of restless activity, of manifold arrangings and fixings. They think Mr. Hoover is too sure he would be a good President; that he would think himself too competent to solve all difficulties; that he would be too ready with solutions of everything that turns up. They do not regard him as radical, and they do not seem to be afraid of anything in particular that he proposes...
...sure enough, dashing through the sleepy streets, Engine No. 9 snorted up to No. 2009 Massachusetts Avenue, a modest little French-style mansion of Indiana limestone, with festive lights. There, just as on another night last January (TIME, Jan. 16), stood a pink-cheeked, slightly rotund little man with a perky mustache and amusing eyes...
...fanfare printed on the program, it was not unnatural to expect that him would be a totally tasteless bread pudding of the theatre, containing not even a raison d'etre. Such was what some of the critics who attended its initial performance discovered it to be: not quite sure whether the play had been successful in its attempt to understand them, they wrote scornful words which the box-office at least could not fail to find intelligible. Others, undeceived by the play's pretenses, by its dreary smut, by its fairly frequent lapses into complete and trite absurdity...
...Arts and Sciences. The Department of History, Government and Economics, as one dealing in the actions of men rather than with their thoughts, has yielded to ascendancy in number of students to the Department of Modern Languages, which had held it up to the last six years. To be sure, the difference is small, but a gain of nearly 70 students for the latter department as compared to five for the former is enough to indicate a marked shift in the interests...
...question whether scholastic aptitude is an asset in non-professional work. He believes that it is, on the ground that it has been found to be so in some thousands of cases. His findings, however, it valid, undoubtedly put a premium on good work at college. To be sure the man who has the ability to do well but does not use it at college will not lose his ability thereby, but if success at college studies is to be accepted as an evidence of a capacity for business, then certainly the opportunity to prove that capacity is one well...