Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshmen will send their undefeated relay team into the meet in an attempt to make it two in a row over Yale. However, Tufts freshmen will probably be favorites in the race after their strong showing in the Knights of Columbus Meet. It is uncertain as yet whether the varsity two mile relay team will be able to run Saturday because of a tight B.A.A. schedule...
Another pause, a click, and she came out of the phone booth still uncertain. The voice just didn't fit a short guy. And he sounded so sort of shy and nice . . . my God, the handsome stag...
...time being, and perhaps for a long time, we must sail a middle course in an uncertain sea," wrote the President of the U.S. to Congress last week. Harry Truman's middle course, as he went on to chart ft in his budget, lay somewhere between guns and tools on the starboard, and butter on the port. A year ago he had insisted on a "pay-as-you-go" tax program. Now it was clear that he was sailing directly-if regretfully-back into the perilous waters of deep-deficit financing...
...Clara, Southern Novelist Lonnie Coleman has handled a potentially messy theme with uncommon dignity. His story, in other hands, might have become a staring-eyed study of miscegenation. Author Coleman uses it to show that the color line in the South can sometimes follow a route as uncertain as the wanderings of human emotion...
When possible, the AEC makes a lump-sum contract with the lowest bidder, but often the projects are so new and so uncertain that no sane board of directors will make such a guarantee to deliver results. It follows that many contracts must be "cost plus a fixed fee," in spite of the risk to the taxpayer. Since the contractor does not profit by keeping costs down, he is tempted to permit abuses-from loafing to large-scale inefficiency. In shadowy AEC-land, screened with secrecy and rippling with money, a crooked or careless corporation might find easy pickings...