Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Candidate Willis some of the nucleus of delegates from which he had hoped to sprout a tail-end nomination like President Harding's, Candidate Willis blustered: "Personally, I have no fear of the results." He knew he was being laughed at in urbane Cincinnati, but he felt sure that, as champion orator of the Anti-Saloon League and loyal defender of the "Ohio Gang," he could count on Ohio's farmers, small-townsmen and patronage-seekers, and on big, semidry, well-organized Cleveland. His campaign manager, Col. Carmi Thompson of Cleveland, was thought to have thrilled upper...
Many a high-minded stalwart, feeling sure he could meet these specifications, quailed at one more requirement. To belong to the 15th U. S. Infantry, you must be able to speak at least 300 words in Chinese...
...since I have at present about 3000 applications for service. I could not very well make a definite statement. In experiences such as we shall face in the polar regions, the best or the worst will come to the surface in any man, and we want to be pretty sure of these that go with...
Wells was counted on for a sure first in the hurdle event, and his loss makes Coach Hillman extremely pessimistic over the Green's chances in the coming meet...
...never seen a better Harvard track team. I have never seen a finer group of men than made up that team." At a dinner at the Varsity Club on the night of Thursday, February 20, he had previously said to both the University and Freshman track squads. "I'm sure I don't know where you get your speed." He was destined to see an even more remarkable brand of speed and stamina displayed at the 1925 Triangular meet. In the sensational clipping of record after record which took place that Saturday night in Mechanics Hall, so much excitement...