Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called upon to set on their machines) is their trickiest job. The perforators were not designed to set type around illustrations, and it takes ingenuity, experience and patience to make up for this lack. Consequently, when this letter is not in on time, I hear about it in no uncertain terms. This time, however, I hope they won't mind its being a little late...
Pollyanna-wise, the Daily Telegraph was determined to be cheerful and bright about the whole thing. "It would be a poor heart which did not rejoice at this sudden glory of the uncertain English summer," it wrote. "Now that at last this cheerfulness has broken through, let none complain that this sparkling warmth is not to be borne." Grumpily the hot and footsore Standard muttered: "Do not drink iced drinks. They often bring on stomach cramps. Look after the feet. Eau de Cologne and methylated spirits applied at night are helpful...
Wand, Lord Bishop of London, peered about him, reported with some perception: "One thing about which the world is uncertain today is whether life has any meaning...
...University's oldest graduation week ceremonies, Dean Sperry used Ecclesiastes XI: 4, 6 as the text for sermon, in which he counselled the Seniors that, in the face of "uncertain her" today, if they wait for "settled her" before they begin to live, they never have lived...
Economics, as amoral as science and as flexible as art, offers complicated reasons why it should be done. But the plain people of Europe, faced with an uncertain summer and the certainty of terrible winter, will hardly understand such nonsense. In Germany, gripped by a grave food crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS), potatoes meant life. Britain was still wearily debating whether or not the noted nutritionist, Dr. Franklin Bicknell, had been right when he said that Britons were slowly starving. In France, the daily bread ration had been cut from 10.5 ounces to 8.3 ounces, may be cut again, and Premier...