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Word: uncertainities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON building is on Plympton Street, and has a door newly-painted, in appropriate shades, for the better guidance of uncertain would-be Crimeds. He careful not to confuse it with a local pants prescribe a block further down, which also has a red door. You can tell the business office by a sign on a door at the right as you go in, saying Business Office. But don't go there; follow the crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scribes Extend Beery Gladhand to Would-Be Journalists | 11/25/1947 | See Source »

...through the door which Dreiser opened with Sister Carrie and The Financier. In The Stoic, Dreiser is at the end of the corridor, looking backwards. A blazer of trails, he was nevertheless a poor guide; his limitations as a thinker were summed up in his autobiography: "Chronically nebulous, doubting, uncertain, I stared at everything, only wondering, not solving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last of Dreiser | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Uncertain About Politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Student Wins Waltham Council Election in First Venture into Politics | 11/6/1947 | See Source »

Mavor received a badly sprained ankle in the M.I.T. contest Wednesday and doctors are still uncertain whether he will be ready to face Princeton next Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Team Rated Over Impotent Worcester Technical Eleven Today | 11/1/1947 | See Source »

Police reinforcements suppressed the revolt, but the girls won their point. Indoctrination continued without further hygienic advice. Whether the training program would bag any Communists was still uncertain. One trainee explained: "Men who visit me never appear to have political matters on their minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Sixth Column | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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