Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average age: 23) as his public. He organized his first orchestra-15 kids who called themselves the Band-busters-when he was twelve. They played high-school dances in Philadelphia. Five of Lawrence's current bandsmen are original Bandbusters, including the singer, brunette Rosalind Patton, who sang an uncertain treble for the orchestra when she was eleven, is now a limpid-voiced contralto...
About one surgery patient in a thousand dies under anesthetic. The usual emergency treatment, when a patient's heart stops, is artificial respiration and an adrenalin injection into the heart. Mr. Bailey said he had abandoned this uncertain, time-consuming method for more direct action. He cuts open the abdomen below the ribs with a sweep of the knife, grasps the exposed heart with his right hand and squeezes it like a bulb. After a few minutes' massage, Mr. Bailey triumphantly reported, some of his patients' hearts began to beat of their own accord, and the patients...
Jaakko is still uncertain about sending entries to the big IC4A meet in New York in two weeks. The Crimson's showing in the Heptagonals will probably decide the issue. Outfought Harvard Rutgers First downs 10 13 Net gain, rushing 180 194 Passes attempted 11 15 Passes completed 2 6 Interceptions 1 3 Gain by interceptions 11 110 Number punts 6 6 Distance punts 204 147 Average punts 34 25 Runback of punts 22 5 Number penalties 2 6 Yards penalized...
Annalee Jacoby saw nearly as much of the war. Having gone to Chungking for the United China Relief, she and her fiance, TIME Correspondent Melville Jacoby, retired to Manila in November 1941 in order to be married under slightly less uncertain conditions. Within two weeks the Philippines were attacked and their wedding trip was a 2,500-mile voyage in a small boat from Corregidor to Australia. There, shortly afterward, Jacoby was killed in an airfield accident. After two years in the U.S., Annalee Jacoby returned to Chungking in 1944 to look after TIME'S office during the intervals...
...arguing that the Village was a government reservation, not subject to the town of Shirley or any other town, for that matter, he carried his point through three meetings with town officials. He came out knowing that there would be no large out-flow of money for taxes, but uncertain of his next step. If the town of Shirley wasn't going to say what was what in the Village, then who was? The U. S. Government, perhaps. So Mr. Taft began to think vaguely of having the FBI police the place. Pinning his hopes on the good character...