Word: uncertainities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deadline passed. A deep blanket of snow made communications by rail and wire uncertain and made a war by mechanized forces almost impossible. As Italy found in Greece, it does not pay to fight Balkan troops under conditions which give an advantage to old-fashioned armies on foot. Moreover, the Danube was frozen-not heavily enough to bear mechanized forces, too heavily to tolerate pontoon bridges. And there are only three permanent bridges over the Danube. Unless the British appeared in Greece in force, there was no need for haste. But the main reason why such a push could well...
...lobbies buzzed with talk that impending military service had made undergraduates restless, uncertain whether they should continue in college. Almost to a man, the college presidents were for postponing students' military training until after their graduation. A Harvard spokesman, President James B. Conant's assistant, John Russell, complained that while defense factory hands were exempted from the draft, chemists-in-training, equally vital to defense, were not. Because they feared being called unpatriotic, delegates eventually adopted a compromise resolution: that Congress should amend the Selective Service Act to let a conscripted collegian finish his current academic year before...
...words of his boss, the Admiral, and his boss's boss, the Marshal: wait and trust. "Take courage," the Marshal had said, "and close your ranks about me." Nevertheless, it was hard for the chauffeur and his friends not to put bricks of fact together with the uncertain mortar of rumor, and so build a comforting structure for the future. Last week they heard plenty of talk...
...breaststroke event should also prove close. Flying 200 yards in a time of 2:41.4, George Simihtsi last year copped first place against the Crimson natators, beating out Rob White and Max Kraus. The same pair will splash tomorrow for the Ulenmen but the outcome is uncertain due to the rapid improvement of "Diesel" White...
Pond's first lieutenant Earl "Greasy" Neale resigned a few weeks ago, and the status of the rest of the Yale grid mentors is uncertain. Nelson is free to purge the staff at will, but apparently lie must make some kind of a showing in short order. He was given a one-year verbal contract...