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Word: uncertainity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standard types: the patriots are staunch, tight-lipped, and unmoved, the German commander a thicknecked, bullet-headed remnant of the days of Von Stroheim's Junkers. The photography is excellent, but in the precarious position of being either documentary or drama or both, "Jericho" achieves at best an uncertain effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...residence through last summer, but for reasons uncertain last night, he did not enroll for the fall term. In early September he took an apartment on Massachusetts Avenue opposite from Sargent College dormitories, presumably as a base for his larcenous operations...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Ex-Undergrad Admits He Is Check Looter | 1/9/1947 | See Source »

Rushing out, they caught a glimpse of a fleeing man whom they presumed had taken alarm on being interrupted. Apprehended after a few blocks of uncertain pursuit at a trotting pace, the suspect turned out to be a graduate student of the Class of 1942, who has still to explain his evening's activities satisfactorily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FBI, Postmen Still Stumped By Holiday GI Check Thefts | 1/7/1947 | See Source »

...work. Tested on cancerous mice, tetanus toxin checked or reduced tumors in half the cases. Diphtheria toxin did even better: out of 65 mice with cancers, it cured 39, stopped tumor growth in 19. Unlike KR, the toxins have still to be tested on humans. U.S. researchers, fascinated but uncertain, are pursuing experiments along similar lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer in Russia | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Photographs will be taken all next week in the second floor Common Room at the Union. In addition, the Committee will set up an appointment table during meal hours and conduct a room-to-room canvass primarily for the benefit of students who are as yet uncertain of their class affiliation, whether...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yearlings' Reluctance To Pose for Camera Decried by Red Bood | 12/5/1946 | See Source »

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