Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...copper kettles, pieces of coal and other things" seems to have furnished no cause for sanguinary conflict. The only specified damage was to property, particularly windows. It is safe to imagine, however, that the members of the Bullingdon Club are satisfied with their night's work. It is still uncertain what methods were used to "peacify" the Oxford students, but from accounts there are no broken bones and there is no effort to press the matter...
Second: for those seniors who have indicated their desire to talk with men in one or more businesses, or who are uncertain as to their ultimate choice of work, every effort will be made to provide interviews with representative business and professional men, chiefly graduates located in and near Boston or New York, to the end that sufficient information will be given to bring about an intelligent decision. It is not the function of the Student Employment Office to give advice on the Choice of a Vocation, as such, nor to advise a man definitely to go into a special...
Judy. Beside a song hit presumptive: "When Gentlemen Grew Whiskers and Ladies Grew Old," this musical comedy has Queenie Smith, as ever a charming twinkle-toes. After an uncertain first night it picked up considerably, and is the first clean show with a Greenwich Village setting in many a year. Thin...
...lemmings', who date back to Norse mythology and further; back to Miocene days when lemmings periodically migrated from the Scandinavian peninsula to another continent, perhaps lost Atlantis, by land routes which no longer exist. The lemmings have not yet learned that their oldtime highways are gone. At uncertain intervals (sometimes after five years, sometimes after 20) they mass on an edge of the Scandinavian plateau† and start a beeline migration. They move by the million, having families more plentifully than ever on the march; destroying crops and herbage; preyed on by throngs of bigger beasts. They never hesitate...
...Senator, "Tennessee's Most Beloved Citizen"; at Bell Buckle, Tenn.; of bronchitis and senility To his students (who included Norman H. Davis, able diplomat) he said each day: "Boys, don't do things on the sly." The origin of his pupil-invented sobriquet "Old Sawney" is uncertain...