Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 1870's, James Bryce visited Harvard and described it as "no real university, but only a struggling college with uncertain relations to learning and research." Today, Bryce would eat his words, for 80 years has performed a miraculous--change, transforming the small provincial college of 1873 into a great university, offering opportunity for study in almost every conceivable field...
...says that he is "getting old" however, and as a result, he is reluctantly retiring. His plans for the future, he says, are at present uncertain, though he expects to "enjoy a little rest...
Massachusetts already has a system--an effective but ill-defined system. And beyond the evils inherent in any censorial set-up, the one in the Commonwealth presents the further evil of uncertain boundaries. The limits of the system are almost impossible to define partially because the system is largely a secret one, and partially because a host of small pressure groups and private individuals wander around the field...
...permissible, may I nominate . . . Mr. John Voter, who so courageously and correctly declared himself in no uncertain terms to save our country from four more years of misrule...
...bomb or not, nothing can deprive the corps of its pride in itself and its past, and its confidence that those are the best guarantees against an uncertain future. Explained a World War II platoon leader at Camp Lejeune last week: "The only way I can describe it is like this: I was in three actions in the Pacific. I never had to look behind...