Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play as a whole is probably as enthusiastic a eulogy of American democracy as this uncertain, critical, qualifying age will allow...
Some three years ago Harvard University received as a memorial gift a portrait bust of Descartes. But on comparison with the portrait in the Louvre, painted by Frans Hals, this attribution proved uncertain. It now is exhibited in the Fogg Museum for its intrinsic merit as sculpture...
Build us, O build the singing tower! listeners, uncertain whether the proposed structure was to be in the nature of a bird sanctuary or a bombproof dugout, asked him what the poem should be called. Said Poet Auslander: "Why, I haven't given it a name. You name it. Name it anything you want...
When it was first suggested in 1833 that Philadelphia's streets be lighted by gas instead of oil, a group of such prominent citizens as Benjamin Chew, Horace Binney and Jacob Ridgeway wrote in consternation to the city council. They protested against the use of "an uncertain light, sometimes disappearing and leaving the streets and houses in total darkness." Despite these dire predictions, the city council spent $100,000 on a municipal gasworks which began supplying 46 street lights and two homes in 1836. Last week hundreds of Philadelphia housewives telephoned the city hall to find out whether...
...case he finds the suspect, he is uncertain as to the method of approaching him, but intimated that he will not call the police until the man has admitted his identity...