Word: uncertainities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine demurred in no uncertain terms. One WAAC's husband prepared a bill of particulars: The barracks were unsanitary, a firetrap had a latrine (made for men) with some fittings that did not belong in a WAAC establishment...
...second dance scheduled by "Saber and Key" will fall sometime during April, the exact date remaining as yet uncertain. The final dance of the spring will be HBSA sponsored and is planned...
...Lumber, especially for shipping, worries her a little. For the time being, she is well set for aircraft machinery but needs certain precision tools and parts, such as exact ball bearings. She does not worry about bombings as long as Shangri-La is farther from Tokyo and much more uncertain than Britain in relation to the Ruhr. Industrially, Japan is by no means near collapse...
...fighting fronts the going has been tough, the course uncertain. In 1943, we are warned, the going will be tougher, the course more uncertain. I suggest that the bar-bound Greatbrains, the fireside Hotspurs let their pencils and diaphragms rest, consider this...
Died. Dr. George Washington Carver, most famed Negro scientist; in Tuskegee, Ala. His age was uncertain: he was born of slaves about 1864. Coal-black, sad-eyed, fragile, white-polled, he spent most of his life in his Tuskegee Institute laboratory (originally assembled from scrapheap oddments) exploiting the possibilities of the soybean, peanut, sweet potato and cotton. From the peanut he developed more than 300 synthetic products (including cheese, soap, flour, ink, medicinal oils), from the sweet potato more than 100 (including tapioca, shoe polish, imitation rubber). "When I get an inspiration," he once explained simply, "I go into...