Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Drohan is still uncertain about two positions in his line-up. Green and McCurdy have alternated at center so far this season and so far neither has played a good enough game to insure himself a regular position. Oothout played brilliantly at Choate on Saturday and he may be on the floor at left guard when the opening whistle blows today...
...interviewed by newspaper reporters about a book she was just completing to set forth the "unquestionably" evil influence exerted by popular nursery jingles upon infant minds. Mother Goose† herself was the object of Mrs. Stoner's determined attack and the reporters were told, in no uncertain tones, that...
...fact that there is no fund for Christmas decorations at the infirmary. In former years this institution has depended on individual charity and on subscriptions from the patients: this is, as we see, unsuitable. We could, in the organize a committee to raise the money needed; this also is uncertain some year, one may foget attend to it. The best way, to my mind, is to endow the infirmary with a fund yielding an interest of fifteen or twenty dollars, which is an adequate sum to provide for wreaths, a tree, a few trimmings, and perhaps a few flowers...
...total eclipses, there has probably been only about an hour made up of scattered minutes here and there, now and then, during which the corona has been under scientific examination. It is known to be connected with the phenomena of sunspots and electrical disturbances, but its exact nature is uncertain. The moon's course also will be closely examined to correct errors in present calculations; for, although the moon travels very regularly in a general way, it is slightly pulled aside this way and that by many diverse factors very hard to caculate. The effect of gravity on light rays...
When asked what probable effect this election would have on the plans of the Monarchists to restore the Hohenzollerns to the throne of the German Empire, Professor Lord said. "The elections seem to reflect pretty accurately the still bewildered and uncertain state of mind of the German people, still torn between old loyalties and new ideals. Now that the Dawes Plan is actually in force and Germany's political and economic situation, so appalling only a year ago, is now beginning to improve rapidly, the moderate parties would seem to have some chance of convincing the German people that their...