Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result is uncertain. It is not considered likely that the King Cabinet will endorse all the proposals, some of which are far reaching. Canada deals with its prohibition question by provinces, and some of these are wet and some dry. The chief proposals made by the Americans included...
...years ago gave up cotton for other crops, is now planning to benefit from current soaring prices by again sowing her fields in cotton. It is apparent, therefore, that unless Government experts under the Department of Agriculture can shortly solve the weevil problem, the American cotton planter will face uncertain and precarious profits; while if the solution of the problem is long delayed, he will face international competition such as is at the bottom of the grain growers' dissatisfaction today...
...Democratic contest, it was reported that McAdoo was sure to be chosen, but most of the reports emanated from the McAdoo camp. It is likely that all the men above named will be placed on the primary ballots, but which in first, and which in second place is uncertain...
...Louis XIV, the play itself is concerned. "Epochs of prey", M. Rolland describes them, "a pack of hounds with blind instincts, always straining to escape from the huntsman's leash." The era of Augustus, the era of Leo X, the era of Louis XIV,--all built on the uncertain grounds of repression, murder and cruelty; all followed by periods of terrible degeneration, of savage misuse of liberty...
...genesis of this figure is uncertain. According to Mr. Mellon's plan the tax reductions for millionaires would total $29,310,000 as compared to $193,390,000 to persons with smaller incomes. To calculate a tax cut of $85,000,000 for millionaires it is necessary to include persons with incomes of less than $10,000 in the millionaire class. The abolition of amusement taxes and telegraph and telephone taxes, proposed by Mr. Mellon, cannot be supposed to affect chiefly the 23,000 millionaires...