Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uncertain how to behave in this, their first formal press conference with the new President, the newsmen hesitated. Doorman McKenna said: "Pass by in single file, please, and meet the President. Mr. Young will introduce you." John Russell Young of the Washington Star, oldest White House Correspondent on the job, took post near the President...
Temporarily Havana was cut off from the provinces when telephone and telegraph wires were slashed in a dozen places. Suspecting revolt in Santiago, 800 government troops commandeered the night express, rushed thither. When communications were restored, iron government censorship left correspondents in Havana uncertain whether revolution...
...grip temporarily. However, his game is now reliable, and he is in a position to do a piece of good work to finish his first year of Varsity play. Huntington Hartford, who holds down number 2 berth on the first team this year, has played an inconsistently brilliant, uncertain game of squash. When he feels the urge, he can display deadly accuracy, and at other times he appears in need of a fight talk--but who ever heard of a fight talk in squash? J. G. Cornish ocC will probably play in third place. During the season he has developed...
When Dr. Whittem worked out the plan of study now pursued in French 2, he was admittedly rather uncertain as to the purpose of the course. This uncertainty has not been shared by these attempting to meet the language requirements, for they have eagerly seized upon French 2, and to a lesser degree French 1, as a valid and easy means of satisfying these. The result is an overcrowded course, presenting poorly organized and uninteresting material to a group of students whose only purpose in the course is meeting the language requirements in the simplest possible manner. Such a course...
...Carnegie Foundation's twenty-seventh annual report yesterday vigorously urged the state colleges and schools to enforce drastic economics to meet the demands of the times. In no uncertain terms it advocated widespread retrenchments all along the line. These recommendations, however, beg the question of the advisability of governmental economics in a depression, particularly when at the expense of education...