Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Life insurance is the most modern method by which the uncertain is made certain," quoted Mr. Woodhouse from President (then Governor) Coolidge's address in 1921 to the Life Insurance Sales Congress. "I believe that the most wonderful thing of this insurance program," continued Mr. Woodhouse, "is that every man--no matter what his condition may be can contribute equally in the building of this endowment to Harvard. This insurance is a policy on each man's life, and I consider it a marvelous way of keeping up the class spirit and of holding the class together...
Coach Mahan was uncertain in predicting the date of the first outdoor practice. Although outdoor practice is seldom assured until April 1, Dennis Enright, caretaker at Soldiers Field, declared that continued warm weather might mean outdoor practice by March...
...municipal court has ruled that selling "decent wine" is to be distinguished from dealing out bad moonshine, in that it merits only half as large a fine. The effect of this decision on the liquor law is still uncertain, but the same principle might profitably be incorporated into college policy...
...this change has advanced is uncertain, but that it is making giant strides is certain. The literature of the sophisticates has a very strong vogue. A certain moral squeamishness and affectation has disappeared: facts, rather than romantic fallacies, govern youth's outlook more and more. This generation has looked into the past and not the good men, but those who have seen life in its completeness. And today youth, with "A Professor" in its ranks, looks beneath the respected traditions of conduct, and tries to see life whole...
...agree and, in the opinion of the experts, they are not likely to agree for some time. Their disagreement led to prophesies of a tariff war between the two countries. Le Matin, Paris journal, summed up the situation by stating that "once more the peace of Europe is becoming uncertain. It may be a bloodless war, but economic war is none the less terrible...