Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face, was the State, and he leaned over the side of his traffic box to talk with a man of the street. The latter was a well-dressed fellow, and from the puzzled expressions of the two it was clear that the location of some back street was uncertain in their minds. As we passed beneath the symbol of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a fragment of the conversation slipped between the horns of the traffic jam. The officer and not the merchant was the questioner...
...beginnings of the Supreme Court battle (see col. 2) were but a mild foretaste of what is yet to come. To those who believe Franklin Roosevelt is the shrewdest judge of political trends in the U. S. it meant also that the outcome of the battle is more uncertain than that of any which the New Deal has yet fought...
...come smiling through a dozen Coronations and Durbars if required, correspondents were obliged to question the India Office closely. What about Sir Alexander Hardinge, the King's Private Secretary, only recently dispatched to India to perfect arrangements for the Durbar? What about the King's own uncertain health? What about Mahatma Gandhi's teeming Indian National Congress, its denunciation of the new Constitution now being given by Britain to her Indian Empire (TIME, Oct. 12, et ante)? And what about the Congress' vote to boycott every festivity connected with the Coronation (TIME...
Beside those who have answered and those who are uncertain, there is a large number of men who have been asked but have not yet replied. Only about 30 have refused outright...
...Washington at latest reports Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito was uncertain whether or not he was being called home to become Foreign Minister, as correspondents were cabling from Tokyo. The Army and Navy, besides supplying Cabinet timber for their departments, were reported to want a general as Foreign Minister, at least temporarily, and the High Command was believed to be sitting with Premier-Designate Hayashi, dictating which Japanese politicians would be permitted to be Ministers...