Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulty of obtaining grades and the impossibility of seeing corrected blue books are issues of at least passing interest. Some, whose concern is leavened by the proximity of probation or Dean's List, have been known to rear back on their hind legs and shout disapproval in no uncertain terms, audible even in University Hall...
...This has been a difficult and uncertain process which held no hope for a permanent solution of a dangerous financial problem. It was therefore decided by all concerned that it would be advisable to put our athletic program on the game basis as the other activities of the University...
Above all, Haile Selassie has created a general, warm and blind sympathy for uncivilized Ethiopia throughout civilized Christendom. In the wake of the world's grandiose Depression, with millions of white men uncertain as to the benefits of civilization, 1935 produced a peculiar Spirit of the Year in which it was felt to be a crying shame that the Machine Age seemed about to intrude upon Africa's last free, unscathed and simple people. They were ipso facto Noble Savages, and the noblest Ethiopian of them all naturally emerged as Man of the Year...
...reported making his third fortune after his second bankruptcy, Jesse Livermore Sr. was notified of the shooting. Silently he and his third wife took plane for California. On the second day doctors operated to drain fluid from the boy's pierced lung, still dared not touch the bullet. Uncertain whether he would live, police jailed Mrs. Livermore for attempted murder. Up & down the hospital corridor paced Jesse Livermore Sr., swearing that if his son died he would "spend every cent to see that she gets what is coming to her.'' Alarmed by a 14% increase...
...horribly until one man after six hundred and six tries found that something could be done. Maybe there is no one thing that can prevent another war but I do know that if everyone who has any feeling in the matter at all, said what he felt in no uncertain terms -and kept saying it, that the sheer power of public opinion would go far to make war impossible. I am a very profane man. I am not being profane now when I say, 'For Christ's sake, say or do what...