Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second University baseball nine will face a team of uncertain strength when it meets the Westbrook Seminary aggregation on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The visitors from Portland, Maine, have a reputation as a hard-hitting aggregation...
...England spring is as uncertain as the comings-out of Lampy and no arbitrary date can be set in advance for the first appearance of "boaters". Man's conventions are unaccountable; a straw hat in a sea of felts, though the day be 90 in the shade, seems a de trop us that full dress suit at the informal dinner which tortures the gentleman in the etiquette advertisements. Here in Cambridge disregard for conventional toggery is reputed more conventional that convention itself. And some brave straws have already appeared; in fact, "the President has pointed the way with his Panama...
...mile and two-mile races are uncertain. Chapin may take part in either one of these, and should score first in whichever one he enters. Cutcheon, whose running has improved greatly in recent practice sessions, is another potential Crimson victor in the long runs. Friedlander and Greeley are the best Blue entries for the mile, while Tracy and Whittlesy are possible Eli point-scorers in the eight laps...
With the true causes of war as dim and uncertain as in the famous duel of Lewis Carroll's, General Wu and General Chang marched forth, each fighting against the other for the unity of China. General Wu has won after a battle lasting several days, and controls Peking and the government; while Chang is fleeing northward, his troops scattered in all directions...
...interesting to examine the different points of view that have prompted all three nations to this same action. France wants the Americans to stay as a symbol of the alliance which won the war. The moral support of the United States is a very uncertain quantity in future trouble between France and Germany; and with Americans on the Rhine, the French breathe more freely. England wants the United States to remain in Germany because there has been less friction between the Germans and their conquerors where Americans instead of French troops have been stationed. Last of all, the thought...