Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part in last week's shooting remained uncertain. Some dispatches had him on his way to the scene of the fighting "by caravan" from Tibet. But certain it was that on the scene was an old and faithful Wu mi, Wu's infatuated right-hand man, Mr. Pai Chien-wu, himself a descendant of an 8th Century poet. What happened...
...knew that the brave old walrus was dying three weeks ago, Poland's famed Colonels' Clique suddenly brought forward the new Constitution on which they had been working for five years and had it formally signed. Thus last week gentle President Moscicki, a brilliant scientist but an uncertain politician, found himself with enormous paper powers. He has absolute veto over Parliament, he can take command of the Army and Navy, and dismiss Parliament by decree...
Coach Fred Mitchell was uncertain last night as to his starting pitcher, both Drib Braggiotti and Tom Bilodeau having been named for the post. In the event that Bilodeau pitches, Prouty will play first and Dick Fletcher will occupy center field. Should Braggiotti pitch, Bilodeau will held down the initial sack, with Dick Prouty in center field...
...killed a dog, ate it. became deathly sick. Two days later he reeled into an Eskimo village where trappers from Baker Lake found him. First thing Adventurer Irwin wanted last week was a telegraph blank. Said he: "I guess Mother is worried about me. Mail has been a bit uncertain...
...William Robinson, of the Government's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, remembered fetal urine and bruisewort, decided to learn whether the maggot vulneraries also did their good work by excreting allantoin into the wound. Surgeons theretofore knew that maggots ate diseased tissues. But they were uncertain of how maggots stimulated healing...