Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John W. Sterling Library, Yale's latest Gothic addition can never become an actuality until Mrs. Mary Sweszey is brought to terms. Just what result can be produced by court action seems uncertain and it is hoped that some compromise may be reached. Meanwhile Mrs. Sweazey is continuing arrangements to lease rooms to students again as she has done in recent years...
Super-Tuchun Feng, an ever wily and uncertain quantity whom Sun's judgment must evaluate, was reported last week still in Moscow dickering for more gold and guns. With these he may either play Russia's game or settle down to fortify his stronghold in Mongolia. That the Cantonese of the extreme South expect Bolshevik loyalty from Feng of the extreme North was proved last week when he was elected in absentia to a seat on the Executive Council of the Cantonese Soviet...
National Affairs Uncertain...
...high at Barcelona, industrial tinder box of Catalonian unrest. Upon the city and all Spain Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera clapped his oldfashioned, iron extinguisher of smothering censorship. With all commercial telegraph and telephone lines completely silent throughout Spain, voluminous clouds of rumor billowed with the awesome menace of uncertain portent...
Last November, Edwin Elmore, famed Peruvian publicist, once the revolutionary ally of José, fell a-quarreling with him in the doorway of a newspaper office at Lima. What occurred is uncertain. Poet José alleges that he, attacked by unarmed Publicist Elmore, drew his ever-ready revolver and killed in self-defense...