Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly be doubted that our people are restive under the slow and uncertain processes...
...plant, who contracts for raw goods and farms out throwing & weaving to the lowest bidder in cutthroat competition. Nobody has been happy. While owners have found themselves in or near bankruptcy because of bone-slashed prices, millhands have been faced with wages, hours and working conditions as varied & uncertain as the silk in women's hosiery...
...human soul in the presence of disaster and distress. There are the earnest faces of speakers at meetings and in the village talking war, exhorting the defense. There are faces of old women moved from their homes in Madrid for safety's sake, staring at a bleak, uncertain future, faces in terror after a bombing (see cut), faces of men going into battle and the faces of men who will never return from battle, faces full of grief and determination and fear...
...remain in reserve for the eternally discussed final attack on Madrid. To make way for them, Spanish regulars were ordered to vacate the most comfortable barracks in the city. Firing broke out, the Falangist, Spanish Fascists, coming to the assistance of the Italians, and the Moors, always a little uncertain whom they were fighting and for what, joined in the fight in Toledo's ancient bull ring...
...delegates waved approval of this lyrical resolution: "Whereas, some of our schools for the deaf, which should lead in the preservation and use of the facile, beautiful, expressive Sign Language of the Deaf have on the contrary attempted to abridge or suppress it in favor of an uncertain awkward method of communication known as 'lipreading' and whereas, the educated deaf bear witness overwhelmingly to the truth that the Sign Language and Manual Alphabet are the most practical, convenient and dependable medium of expression for those bereft of hearing, be it resolved that this Association unhesitatingly reaffirms its historical...