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Word: uncertain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somehow or other, the human race is managing to survive the close call, but now long it can stave off the fatal day is uncertain. It is time for the intelligentsia to realize its responsibilities. Civilization must be left to its own devices no longer. It is up to Phi Beta Kappa men to recognize their Key as the wise man's burden, which is altogether too ponderous to dangle from a mere watchchain, and altogether too potent to have no other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WISE MAN'S BURDEN | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

Jess Willard with Bill Dowdy and Pete Zouch, one of the stars of last year's Freshman team, has moved to midfield, the present strength of which is still uncertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM STRONG; PLANS HEAVY SCHEDULE | 2/28/1939 | See Source »

Swift developments in this key country of southeast Europe, where conditions have been turbulent for a month, were expected to have an important, though as yet uncertain, bearing on the struggle for dominance of Europe between the totalitarian and democratic blocs...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

Financial support of the organization is as yet uncertain, but President Conant has expressed interest in it and it is felt that the formation of the Faculty committee may eventually mean direct aid from the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Committee to Sponsor Radio Workshop's Experiments | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

...Uncertain whether he would reach Rome before the doors to the conclave are locked (probably between February 25 and March 1), Cardinal O'Connell this week was to sail for Italy. His colleagues, George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago and Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, departed last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death of a Pope | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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