Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whom the Democrats will nominate for Senator remains uncertain. It is known, however, that Tammany expects to pick a "dripping Wet." So whether the Dry forces can defeat Wadsworth or not, New York seems certain to have a Wet Senator for the next six years...
...emergency was met. The supervising nurse rushed pocket flashlights to the operating room; by their feeble and uncertain light Dr. Schillinger finished his operation. The baby lived. But a question has been raised which the nurses, doctors, internes of the Brownsville and East New York Hospital began to ask each other: "Should not our hospital, and every hospital, have its own emergency lighting system...
Before the entering student in a graduate school lies a short period of bewilderment. The School of Architecture is to different in this respect than other departments. There is a new technique of language, of study, and of production before him and most important of all, there enters that uncertain element--the necessity for creative ability. He finds himself in a huge room full of noise and men, restlessness and work--this later in a marked degree. He sees a cross section of life and a set of values that will remain the same for him always in considerable contradiction...
...economic ventures presuppose reduction of operations to their lowest terms in point of effort and expense. We cannot tolerate that the legal part of those operations should continue cumbersome, dilatory, uncertain and expensive, while all else is moving swiftly, smoothly and without waste. Business men have a right to call upon us to do for our operations what they have been doing for theirs and we must do our part as they have been doing theirs. We must study the workings of the law, see how it falls short and why, and must apply our inventive powers to find better...
...political compeers. But Borah, now so much of a figure in the Senate, cannot enter New York politics without prudence; and prudence rather devitalizes a crusader. One is inclined to believe that Mr. Borah will value his independent reputation in the Senate, as the firm and incorruptible, to the uncertain glamour of an approach to evangelism...